Since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) children-s rights have assumed a central position in a wide variety of disciplines and policies.
This handbook offers an engaging overview of the contemporary research landscape for those people in the theory and practice of children-s rights. The volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to children-s rights, as well as key thematic issues in children-s rights at the intersection of global and local concerns. The main approaches and topics within the volume are:
- Law, social work, and the sociology of childhood and anthropology
- Geography, childhood studies, gender studies and citizenship studies
- Participation, education and health
- Juvenile justice and alternative care
- Violence against children and female genital mutilation
- Child labour, working children and child poverty
- Migration, indigenous children and resource exploitation
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