Book contents
- A Magna Carta for Children?
- A Magna Carta for Children?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Hamlyn Trust
- The Hamlyn Lectures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Prelude
- Part I Is it Wrong to Think of Children as Human Beings?
- Part II Even Lawyers Were Children Once
- 3 The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Its Principles
- 4 The Convention: Norms and Themes
- 5 Enforcing Children’s Rights
- 6 Criticisms of the Convention
- 7 Beyond the Convention
- 8 Interlude: What We Can Learn from the Sociology of Childhood
- 9 Childhoods and Rights
- 10 Regional Children’s Rights
- 11 Child-Friendly Justice
- 12 The World Twenty-Five Years On: New Issues and Responses
- Part III A Magna Carta for Children
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Its Principles
from Part II - Even Lawyers Were Children Once
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
- A Magna Carta for Children?
- A Magna Carta for Children?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Hamlyn Trust
- The Hamlyn Lectures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Prelude
- Part I Is it Wrong to Think of Children as Human Beings?
- Part II Even Lawyers Were Children Once
- 3 The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Its Principles
- 4 The Convention: Norms and Themes
- 5 Enforcing Children’s Rights
- 6 Criticisms of the Convention
- 7 Beyond the Convention
- 8 Interlude: What We Can Learn from the Sociology of Childhood
- 9 Childhoods and Rights
- 10 Regional Children’s Rights
- 11 Child-Friendly Justice
- 12 The World Twenty-Five Years On: New Issues and Responses
- Part III A Magna Carta for Children
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the most ratified, and most swiftly ratified, international treaty in history. Only the United States, which played a dominant role in its formulation (C. P. Cohen, 2006), has not as yet ratified (Gunn, 2006). Somalia ratified in 2014, South Sudan in May 2015.
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- A Magna Carta for Children?Rethinking Children's Rights, pp. 85 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020