Children's human rights : progress and challenges for children worldwide / edited by Mark Ensalaco and Linda C. Majka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ensalaco, Mark.

Majka, Linda C.

Series:

Children's human rights.

Children's human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's rights.

Physical Description:

vii, 278 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2005]

Summary:

Children's human rights are regularly violated around the world. Child soldiers, child slavery, and child prostitution are some of the more graphic examples this books deals with, but hungry, sick, and orphaned children are equally at risk and more prevalent. In the United States, children suffer similar abuses, but some are unique to the United States justice system. Unlike most of the rest of the world, the U.S. is a well-developed western nation in which juvenile offenders can be tried as adults and subjected to capital punishment. This book brings together a wide array of original essays from a variety of academic and practitioner perspectives on human rights and the status of children. The details are disturbing; the message, powerful: We must vigorously extend the universal declaration of human rights to the most vulnerable humans of all--the children of the world, starting at home in the United States.

Contents:

Introduction: A Human Rights Approach to the Needs of Children / Linda C. Majka, Mark Ensalaco 1

Part I Children's Rights in International Law 7

1 The Right of the Child to Development / Mark Ensalaco 9

2 Transforming Visions into Reality: The Convention on the Rights of the Child / Jill Marie Gerschutz, Margaret P. Karns 31

3 Strengthening the Framework for Enforcing Children's Rights: An Integrated Approach / Ursula Kilkelly 53

Part II Children in a Dangerous World 81

4 The Problem of Sexual Trafficking in Postcommunist Europe / Jaro Bilocerkowycz 85

5 Three Prints in the Dirt: Child Soldiers and Human Rights / Mary B. Geske, Mark Ensalaco 111

6 Children's Rights and the Tenuousness of Local Coalitions: A Case Study in Nicaragua / Richard Maclure, Melvin Sotelo 127

7 Protecting Children on the Margins: Social Justice and Community Building / Laura M. Leming, Bro. Raymond L. Fitz 149

Part III Children's Rights in the United States 169

8 Child Farm Workers in United States Agriculture / Linda C. Majka, Theo J. Majka 173

9 Human Rights and Juvenile Justice in the United States / Rosemary C. Sarri, Jeffrey J. Shook 197

10 The Challenges of Human Rights Education and the Impact on Children's Rights / Joyce Apsel 229

Conclusion: Some Progress, Many Challenges / Mark Ensalaco, Linda C. Majka 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742529878

0742529886

OCLC:

57283936