Overview
- Examines children’s rights over 25 years in a critical yet uncontroversial way
- Explores the progress of that of the UN Convention as part of an ongoing process
- Is a long-awaited follow up to The Next Generation: Lives of Third World Children published in 1989
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research (CHIR, volume 11)
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About this book
This work reviews the progress of children’s rights 25 years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It studies the progress of that human rights instrument as part of an ongoing process. It examines how recent past, present and future generations will benefit or suffer as part of the process in which outcomes cannot be predicted. It does not project into the future. Its emphasis is on a review of the period after 1989 and it comments on what has happened and offering guidance on how children's rights might progress.
The book presents a realistic but not always critical review of two and a half decades of intensive activity in the field of children’s rights worldwide. It includes both failures and examples of good practice and positive experiences. It offers a review of progress and lack of progress in child rights and welfare in the twelve countries used as case studies in its predecessor, The Next Generation. Finally, the volume considers the impact of current geopolitical and economic realities on children’s rights in the early years of the twenty-first century. The book is a tribute to Judith Ennew and pays homage to all of the people who have contributed so much to children’s rights over the years and wishes to encourage others to take up the cause.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rights of the Child
Book Subtitle: 25 Years After the Adoption of the UN Convention
Authors: Brian Milne
Series Title: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18784-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18783-9Published: 10 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36905-1Published: 15 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18784-6Published: 30 June 2015
Series ISSN: 1879-5196
Series E-ISSN: 1879-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 225
Topics: Human Rights, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, International Relations, Social Structure, Social Inequality