scholarly journals Child Poverty and Emerging Children’s Rights Discourse in Early Republican Turkey

2016 ◽  
pp. 48-72
Keyword(s):  
Child Poverty ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Early Republican ◽  
Rights Discourse

Discursive tensions: Outcomes and rights in educators’ accounts of children’s relaxation

2020 ◽  
pp. 146394912098348
Author(s):  
Emma Cooke ◽  
Zhaoxi Zheng ◽  
Sandy Houen ◽  
Karen Thorpe ◽  
Andrew Clarke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
Rights Discourse

In early childhood education and care policy, there are two dominant discourses: ‘investment and outcomes’ and ‘children’s rights’. There is little research on how these discourses play out in educators’ accounts. In this article, the authors examine the case of discourse pertaining to children’s relaxation in early childhood education and care. They demonstrate that Australian relaxation policy for children in early childhood education and care constructs children as passive and incompetent subjects. Some educators reproduce early childhood education and care policy tensions by vacillating between investment-outcomes and children’s rights discourse in their accounts, while other educators deviate from the policy constructions and adopt children’s rights discourse.

Towards an Emancipatory Discourse of Children’s Rights

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matías Cordero Arce
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Working Children ◽  
American Adult ◽  
Rights Discourse

Rights are tools of empowerment. However, the hegemonic children’s rights discourse, crystalized in the UNCRC, is anything but child empowering because it is indebted to specific Euro-American adult understandings which picturethe childas ignorant, innocent and needy and the child’shuman rightsas a concession granted by adults. From a survey of the relevant literature this paper critiques and pretends to challenge this disempowering conception. If historically the strength of any given right has depended on its condition of being conquered, the paper reframes the dominant discourse from the standpoint of real children, specifically working children, fighting for their rights. The paper thus embraces the experiences of children driving the children’s rights movement and takes steps to advance an emancipatory discourse of their rights where they become legislators by achieving authoritative, norm-creating capacity.

scholarly journals Child Rights and Child Poverty: Can the International Framework of Children's Rights Be Used to Improve Child Survival Rates?

PLoS Medicine ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. e307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Pemberton ◽  
David Gordon ◽  
Shailen Nandy ◽  
Christina Pantazis ◽  
Peter Townsend
Keyword(s):  
Child Survival ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Child Rights

scholarly journals Judicial Enforcement of Children’s Socio-Economic Rights: Possible Effects on Child Poverty in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sophie Macaulay
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
Poverty Levels

<p>This paper explores the idea of judicially enforceable socio-economic rights for children in New Zealand. Child poverty is an issue that has received increasing attention in New Zealand in recent years, and judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights for children is one way in which children’s socio-economic rights might be better realised. This paper identifies New Zealand’s international obligations towards children and draws on the work of children’s rights theorists. It argues that children are a unique category of rights-holders, and that this justifies prioritisation of judicial enforcement of their socio-economic rights. It explores the different ways in which courts have approached socio-economic rights enforcement, and makes a proposal as to how this might work in New Zealand. It concludes that the effect of judicial enforcement of children’s socio-economic rights on child poverty levels in New Zealand will depend on the type of remedy the courts choose to implement.</p>

Reflections on how Selected Shona and Ndebele Proverbs Highlight a Worldview that Promotes a Respect and/or a Violation of Children’s Rights

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 660-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tendai Mangena ◽  
Sambulo Ndlovu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
Modern Sense ◽  
Universal Application

This paper sets out to demonstrate that though the un Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) is the most widely accepted Human Rights Convention and Zimbabwe is one of the 193 states acceding to the treaty, there are still challenges in the promotion of children’s rights. Irrespective of the fact that human rights discourse is believed to be a modern concept and its universal application is contested, this paper also demonstrates that children’s rights have always been moral imperatives for both the Shona and Ndebele of Zimbabwe since time immemorial, as shown in their proverbs. Nevertheless, it is also imperative there were some beliefs that, if considered in the modern sense of the human rights paradigm, promoted the violation of some children’s rights. The following discussion shows that children’s autonomy is not culturally a Shona or Ndebele concept, and is often not realized in these cultures even if Zimbabwe adheres to the Convention of the Child’s Rights that stipulates that the child be viewed and treated as an autonomous being. In both Shona and Ndebele traditional cultures, as expressed in their proverbs, parents have an obligation to offer protection to their children. This paper also demonstrates the cultural ambivalence in two specific aspects of child care: the beating up of children as a discipline factor and the raising up of orphans.

scholarly journals Judicial Enforcement of Children’s Socio-Economic Rights: Possible Effects on Child Poverty in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sophie Macaulay
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
Poverty Levels

<p>This paper explores the idea of judicially enforceable socio-economic rights for children in New Zealand. Child poverty is an issue that has received increasing attention in New Zealand in recent years, and judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights for children is one way in which children’s socio-economic rights might be better realised. This paper identifies New Zealand’s international obligations towards children and draws on the work of children’s rights theorists. It argues that children are a unique category of rights-holders, and that this justifies prioritisation of judicial enforcement of their socio-economic rights. It explores the different ways in which courts have approached socio-economic rights enforcement, and makes a proposal as to how this might work in New Zealand. It concludes that the effect of judicial enforcement of children’s socio-economic rights on child poverty levels in New Zealand will depend on the type of remedy the courts choose to implement.</p>

Bērnu tiesību diskurss Apvienotajā Karalistē

2021 ◽  
pp. 236-243
Author(s):  
Andrejs Gorbunovs ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
General Public ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Institutional Discourse ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Definition Of

The goal of the article is to describe the main characteristics of the children's rights discourse in the United Kingdom. To achieve the said goal, the author provides a description and definition of discourse, institutional discourse, legal discourse, and children’s rights discourse while also applying the characteristics of the said discourses to determine the main characteristics of the children rights discourse in the United Kingdom. Children’s rights discourse in the United Kingdom is an institutional subordination system defined by legislation (primary and secondary acts), and this legislation is the source of special lexis used in the discourse. Participants of the discourse are government institutions, children and family members, nongovernmental organisations, mass media, and the general public. All participants of the children’s rights discourse in the United Kingdom can have an effect on the discourse, which in turn might affect the special-use lexis of the discourse.

scholarly journals Do Children still need to Escape Childhood?

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronagh Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Current State ◽  
Rights Discourse

The work of children’s liberationists have been long been critiqued for pushing the parameters of rights discourse too far; specifically, by suggesting that there are no significant differences between children and adults, including their ability for self-determination. John Holt’s 1974 text, Escape from Childhood, is one such work which was deemed highly controversial for its time. This article uses Holt’s Escape from Childhood as an overarching framework against which to examine the current state of play on children’s rights as explicated through the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It suggests that whilst Holt has often been critiqued for being too radical, in the context of current children’s rights discourse, Holt’s visioning is not as radical as it might first appear.

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