Children’s rights to survival, development, and early education in India: The critical role of the Integrated Child Development Services program

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nirmala Rao
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Early Education ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Education In India

Citizenship and Rights of Children

2020 ◽  
pp. 221-236
Author(s):  
David B. Thronson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Central Factor ◽  
Family Unity

Citizenship plays a larger and more critical role in the life of children than it should. Children who lack citizenship are incredibly vulnerable to exploitation. In the migration context, a child’s citizenship can be largely determinative of where and with whom a child lives. Despite a modern children’s rights framework that recognizes the humanity and autonomy of children, citizenship and nationality still form an integral part of a child’s identity and play a critical role in a child’s development. It has a pervasive impact in securing other rights for children and can be a central factor in a child’s cultural and linguistic background, education, economic and environment exposures, and virtually all aspects of a child’s daily life. This chapter examines children’s right to citizenship and explores the ongoing crisis of statelessness that undermines these rights. It reviews the role that citizenship plays in both voluntary and forced migration of children, child-specific protections found in both universal and regional human rights frameworks, and the role of children’s citizenship in promoting family unity.

Children’s rights in the field of early education

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 415-428
Author(s):  
Gabriela Etchebehere ◽  
Darío De León
Keyword(s):  
Early Education ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights

Understanding Children’s Rights: A Vision beyond Vulnerability

2015 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Right To Participation ◽  
Special Rights

The idea of children’s vulnerability played a critical role in motivating the adoption of the un Convention on the Rights of a Child, but should vulnerability provide the basis for special human rights for children? Are children especially vulnerable relative to adults? This article seeks to explore the idea of children’s vulnerability in understanding the concept of children’s rights. It argues that vulnerability is not a condition peculiar to children. At the same time it recognizes that children experience special vulnerabilities relative to adults. It is these vulnerabilities that provide a justification for the special rights accorded to them under the Convention. The characterisation of children as vulnerable carries the risk that they will be defined by their vulnerabilities. To address the unintended consequences of a vulnerability paradigm, there is a need to expand the conception of children in a way that recognises their evolving capacities and right to participation.

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