The child's right to development / Noam Peleg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peleg, Noam, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children (International law).

Child development--Law and legislation.

Child development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This book provides a comprehensive account of how child development and the right to development of children have been understood in international children's rights law. It argues that any conceptions of childhood focussed either on children's future as adults, or on children's lives in the present, overlook the hybridity of children's lived experiences. The book therefore suggests a new conception of childhood - namely, 'hybrid childhood' - which accommodates respect for children's agency and human dignity in the present, in the process of growth, and in the outcomes of this process when the child becomes an adult. Consequently, and building on the capability approach's idea of human development, the book presents a radical new interpretation of the child's right to development under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It offers a comprehensive interpretation of the right to development, which is one of the four guiding principles of the Convention.

Contents:

Introduction

Embedding the protection of 'child development' into international children's rights law

Creating the right to development of children

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's interpretation of the right to development

Exploring the meanings of human and child development

A new framework for analysing the child's right to development

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2019).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781316146804

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.