Creating a world fit for children
Subtitle: understanding the UN Convention on the rights of the child
By: Catherine Rutgers, editor
Publisher: International Debate Education Association
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781932716825
Subjects: Children's rights; Convention on the Rights of the Child
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Children's rights : historic developments / by Sandra Robinson; title: Visions and views : the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child / by Målfrid Grude Flekkøy; title: Children's rights : the future starts here / by Amnesty International USA; title: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child : more than a new Utopia? / by James R. Himes; title: The basic paradox / by Philip Alston and John Tobin; title: The Convention : an ending and a new beginning / by Eugeen Verhellen; title: What does the children's convention require? / by Jaap E. Doek; title: Global overview of law reform / by UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre; title: Child rights : on the right path, but a long way to go / by Ishmael Beah; title: Introduction and the meaning of children's participation / by Roger Hart; title: The right of the child to express his or her views freely in all matters affecting him or her / by the United Nations General Assembly; title: Submission to the Human Rights Council working group on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to provide a communications procedure / by Marta Santos Pais; title: The role of children in transitional justice mechanisms and processes / by Alison Smith; title: Building child friendly cities / by UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre; title: A day of prayer and action for children / by Takeyasu Miyamoto; title: The Convention on the Rights of the Child / by Ursula Kilkelly; title: Taking care of children : Buddhism and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child / by Rita M. Gross; title: "Preface" cradle to coffin : a report on child executions in Iran / by Christian Salazar Volkmann; title: Child and family life in Judaism / by David Kraemer; title: Juvenile justice / by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the United Nations Children's Fund; title: Age and children in conflict with the law and the guarantees for a fair trial / by the Committee on the Rights of the Child; title: Crime and justice in South Africa / by KwaZulu Natal Regional Council of YMCAs and Y Care International; title: Youth justice / by the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children; title: War-affected children : an overview / by the International Bureau for Children's Rights; title: Child soldier use 2009 / by Human Rights Watch; title: Raising standards for child protection / by Graça Machel; title: Child soldiers and the capacity of the optional protocol to protect children in conflict / Shara Abraham.