scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN POLAND – SELECTED ASPECTS

MEST Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
Malgorzata Kmak
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Similar Time ◽  
Youth Court ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Current State ◽  
Personal Dignity ◽  
The 19Th Century

Children’s rights are human rights, they result from the personal dignity and uniqueness of the child as a person. They apply to every child, they cannot be stripped away or renounced. It also means that if a child has a right, the state must ensure that it can be exercised. Further, if the child has a certain right, it means that there must also be procedures to enforce it. The beginning of the international movement for the protection of children's rights dates back to 1874, when the first organization for the protection of children's rights, the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, was founded in The United States. In Europe, at a similar time, since 1880, international societies of criminologists, youth court judges, care for abandoned and homeless children were being established to work on relaxing the criminal law for minors or establishing educational and care facilities for children. It was in the 19th century when the rights of the child were discussed in Poland for the first time. Moral, religious, or customary norms regulated children’s place in the community. However, the development of these rights was a long process that had started in Poland much earlier. The article aims to present selected historical situations affecting the development process and the current state of children's rights in Poland.

Epilogue

Troublemakers ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 209-214
Author(s):  
Kathryn Schumaker
Keyword(s):  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Student ◽  
A Current ◽  
Development Of Students

The epilogue explains how the development of students’ rights between the 1960s and the 1980s shaped understandings of children’s rights more broadly. The epilogue discusses the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a United Nations treaty that the United States has refused to ratify, and argues that the Convention conflicts with understandings of children’s rights as expressed by American constitutional law. The epilogue then shows how a current students’ rights case from Detroit, Gary B. v. Snyder, which claims a right to literacy, shows how difficult it has become for students to make claims in relation to racial disparities. The epilogue then discusses what scholars call the “school-to-prison pipeline,” which supports the theory that the development of students’ rights has reinforced rather than challenged existing racial disparities. Finally, the epilogue briefly discusses the ideas about rights and schooling embodied by a new student movement against gun violence.

Introduction: Children’s Rights as Human Rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Richard P. Hiskes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World

The world does not really believe that human rights pertain to children. This is so in spite of the fact that the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has been ratified by all nations worldwide except for one, the United States. This book explores the reasons behind the US refusal in ...

Children's Rights, Family Rights

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Karen M. Staller
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The Relationship

In this article I explore the intersections of children's human rights, social policy, and qualitative inquiry from a social work perspective. First, I consider the relationship between human rights work and social work. Second, I argue that children add complexity to the human rights debate. In doing so, I briefly examine the conflict between children's rights as developed in the United States and that of the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child. Third, I turn to a specific qualitative research project in which a team of researchers conducted an in-depth study of the prosecution of child sexual abuse in one U.S. jurisdiction. I argue that the findings from this study illustrate how qualitative inquiry can reveal conflicting and often hidden value trade-offs that must be addressed when enacting and enforcing children's human rights. This study demonstrates what qualitative inquiry has to offer policy advocates who seek to promote children's human rights.

scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL REGIMES FOR CHILD RIGHTS

2018 ◽  
pp. 229-236
Author(s):  
Rachana Raval ◽  
Bhavesh Bharad
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Court System ◽  
Rights Of The Child

It was not until the late nineteenth century that a nascent children‘s rights protection movement countered the widely held view that children were mainly quasi property and economic assets. In the United States, the progressive movement challenged courts reluctance to interfere in family matters, promoted broad child welfare reforms and was successful in having laws passed to regulate child labor and provide for compulsory education. It also raised awareness of children‘s issues and established a juvenile court system. Another push for children‘s rights occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, when children were viewed by some advocates as victims of discrimination or as an oppressed group. In the international context, ―the growth of children‘s rights in international and transnational law has been identified as a striking change in the post-war legal landscape. 1 Children are a ―supremely important nation and international asset of the future well-being of the world depends on how the children grow & develop. United Nations adopted a resolution which proclaimed 1979 as an international year of the child. In consequence of this proclamation, In 1979, the Government of Polland submitted a draft on the rights of child for adoption by U.N. General Assembly as a lasting memorial year of the child after revised version & a decade campaigning, the UN General Assembly adopted the convention on the rights of the child on November 20 1989 and ratified by 135 nations including India.

Children’s Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

PEDIATRICS ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 112 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 742-745
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Goldhagen
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Child Health Outcomes ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations

The Issue. Disparities and inequities characterize the health and social well-being of children in the United States and the United Kingdom. Children’s rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child are among the most powerful tools available to respond to and increase the relevance of pediatrics to contemporary disparities and determinants of child health outcomes. The articles of the convention establish the framework for a redefinition of what constitutes child health. The convention establishes a template for child advocacy, a matrix for establishing new approaches to health services, a curriculum for professional education, and a set of challenges for future child health outcomes and health systems research.

Beyond Victimhood

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-96
Author(s):  
Richard P. Hiskes
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Public Agency ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Us ◽  
First Time

The 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has been ratified by all nations except the United States. The reasons for the US refusal have to do with national sovereignty and the alleged conflict of children’s rights with the rights of parents. Both are explored here. The CRC advances children’s rights by making protection and provision rights universal for all children, but also by adding the “third P,” rights of participation. Rights of participation (Article 12) in decisions that affect them give children for the first time the public agency to be heard in decision-making forums concerned with protecting the “best interests” of the child. Allowing children into the public realm challenges Arendt’s insistence that child security must keep them in the private sphere and away from politics.

The World Declaration of the Rights of the Child: Anticipated Challenges

1993 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 1011-1022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadreza Hojat
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Early Parent

The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child which was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly is described as a memorable chapter in the history of human civilization. This landmark document has neither been ratified by the United States nor publicized by child health professionals and media. A few of the Convention's guidelines related to early parent-child relations are briefly cited and the role of parents, particularly that of mothers, in protecting their children's rights is discussed. The author anticipates implementation of the guidelines might generate conflict of interest among groups with nontraditional views on family and child care and challenges to the implementations of the guidelines could therefore be expected. Among the reasons for such anticipated challenges are the ongoing controversial and emotional arguments in the literature on child development concerning maternal paid employment and alternative child care, changing views and emphasis on a new definition of marriage, family and motherhood by feminist groups, and inadequate educational indoctrination on child-care issues among some family physicians and pediatricians. The guidelines should not be buried under personal agendas, organizational biases, wishful thinking, ignorance, and political considerations Finally, the obligation of professionals in health and human services as well as State authorities to support positive ideology on children's rights is discussed.

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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