Coming of age : reframing the approach to adolescent rights / edited by Jacqueline Bhabha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bhabha, Jacqueline, editor.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenagers--Civil rights.

Teenagers.

Teenagers--Legal status, laws, etc.

Teenagers--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 367 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Language Note:

In English

Summary:

While young children's rights have received considerable attention and have accordingly advanced over the past two decades, the rights of adolescents have been neglected. This manifests itself in pervasive gender-based violence, widespread youth disaffection and unemployment, concerning levels of self-abuse, violence and antisocial engagement, and serious mental and physical health deficits. The cost of inaction on these issues is likely to be dramatic in terms of human suffering, lost social and economic opportunities, and threats to global peace and security. Across the range of disciplines that make up contemporary human rights, from law and social advocacy to global health, history, economics, sociology, politics, and psychology, it is time, the contributors of this volume contend, for adolescent rights to occupy a coherent place of their own.Human Rights and Adolescence presents a multifaceted inquiry into the global circumstances of adolescents, focusing on the human rights challenges and socioeconomic obstacles young adults face. Contributors use new research to advance feasible solutions and timely recommendations for a wide range of issues spanning all continents, from relevant international legal norms to neuropsychological adolescent brain development, gender discrimination in Indian education to Colombian child soldier recruitment, stigmatization of Roma youth in Europe to economic disempowerment of Middle Eastern and South African adolescents. Taken together, the research emphasizes the importance of dedicated attention to adolescence as a distinctive and critical phase of development between childhood and adulthood and outlines the task of building on the potential of adolescents while providing support for the challenges they experience. Contributors: Theresa S. Betancourt, Jacqueline Bhabha, Krishna Bose, Neera Burra, Malcolm Bush, Jocelyn DeJong, Elizabeth Gibbons, Katrina Hann, Mary Kawar, Orla Kelly, David Mark, Margareta Matache, Clea McNeely, Glaudine Mtshali, Katie Naeve, Elizabeth A. Newnham, Victor Pineda, Irene Rizzini, Elena Rozzi, Christian Salazar Volkmann, Shantha Sinha, Laurence Steinberg, Kerry Thompson, Jean Zermatten, Moses Zombo.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Introduction. The Importance of a Rights- Based Approach to Adolescence Jacqueline Bhabha

1. Protecting and Promoting Adolescent Rights: The Contribution of International Law and Policy

2. Transitions to Adulthood in Contemporary Italy: Balancing Sociocultural Differences and Universal Rights

3. The Science of Adolescent Brain Development and Its Implications for Adolescent Rights and Responsibilities

4. Building Capability and Functioning: Reframing the Rights Agenda for Adolescents Th rough the Lens of Disability Rights

5. Adolescent Social and Emotional Development: A Developmental Science Perspective on Adolescent Human Rights

6. Poverty, Armed Conflict, and Organized Crime: The Impact of Violence on Young People in Colombia

7. Coming of Age in the Context of War: Reframing the Approach to Adolescent Rights

8. Wings of the Phoenix: The Legacy of Violence for Adolescents in Post conflict Reconstruction

9. Adolescents in the Colombian Armed Conflict: Recruitment Realities and Important Lessons for Their Successful Reintegration

10. Young Arabs and Evolving Realities: Linking Social and Economic Rights

11. The Challenges Facing India in Advancing Secondary Education Attainment Among Adolescent Girls

12. Rights and Realities for Vulnerable Youth in Urban Brazil: Challenges in the Transition to Adulthood

13. Youth Unemployment: Facing and Overcoming Obstacles in Partnership

14. Confined by Narrow Choices: The Stories of Roma Adolescents

15. Beginning in the Middle: Ending the Exploitation of Adolescents in India

16. Indian Adolescence and Its Discontents: Transformational Solutions Through Education, Skill Development, and Employment

17. Emerging from the Shadows: Adolescents with Disabilities Claim Their Rights Under International Law

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812290110

0812290119

OCLC:

890756676