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- Expands on the 2006 UNICEF Report’s contention that children are “invisible” in law and policy
- Based on the implications of children’s specific biology and their vulnerability in relation to industrial developments, conflicts and climate change
- Discusses the discriminatory component to be found in many laws intended to protect children, which significantly limits their effectiveness
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Who Is the Child? Rights and Obligations in Conflict
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Critical Lacunae in Child Law: Insufficient and Incomplete Instruments Regarding the Born Child
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Law, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
Laura Westra
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Child Law
Book Subtitle: Children's Rights and Collective Obligations
Authors: Laura Westra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05071-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05070-6Published: 01 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38190-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05071-3Published: 17 June 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 178
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Rights, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Philosophy of Law