Suffer the children : a theoretical foundation for the human rights of the child / Richard P. Hiskes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hiskes, Richard P., 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Legal status, laws, etc.

Children.

Children's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

In 1989, the United Nations established the basis for the definition of "children's rights" in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a document every nation in the world, save the United States, has ratified. Still, human rights theorists, scholars, and jurists continue to disagree as to the theoretical justification for children's human rights. In Suffer the Children, Richard P. Hiskes establishes the first substantive theoretical foundation for the human rights of children. Hiskes provides a new critical assessment of the United Nations CRC and explores child activism for human rights worldwide to show how children are already claiming their rights in ways that will fundamentally change the meaning both of rights themselves and of democratic processes.

Contents:

cover

Suffer the Children

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Children's Rights as Human Rights

1. A Legacy of Child Exclusion: From Hobbes to the Present Lacuna in Human Rights Theory

2. Vulnerable in Nature: Environmental Human Rights and the Claims of Generations

3. Dignity and Dependency: The Honor of Children's Human Rights

4. Beyond Victimhood: The CRC and the Human Rights of a Dignified Child

5. From Participation to Citizenship: Every Child's Human Right to an "Open Future"

6. Children Claiming the Future of Human Rights: "Global Kids" in Courts, on Networks, and in the Streets

7. Toward a More Youthful Democracy: And a More Mature Human Rights

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-756601-4

0-19-756602-2

0-19-756600-6

9780197565988

9780197566008

OCLC:

1245249232