Implementing article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child : participation, power and attitudes / by Rebecca Thorburn Stern.
2017
K639.A41989 T48 2017 (Mapit)
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Implementing article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child : participation, power and attitudes / by Rebecca Thorburn Stern.
Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, [2017]
Description
ix, 208 pages ; 25 cm.
Series
Stockholm studies in child law and children's rights ; v. 2.
Formatted Contents Note
Setting the scene
Concepts and theories : on 'the child', 'childhood', and rights
Participation and Article 12
Implementing Article 12 : procedures, obstacles and explanations
Country study : Sweden
Concluding reflections.
Concepts and theories : on 'the child', 'childhood', and rights
Participation and Article 12
Implementing Article 12 : procedures, obstacles and explanations
Country study : Sweden
Concluding reflections.
Summary
In 'Implementing Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Participation, Power and Attitudes', Rebecca Thorburn Stern analyses how CRC state parties describe their implementation of Article 12 on respect for the child's views. The focus of the study is on if, and how, references to traditional attitudes are used by state parties to explain their actions and inactions when implementing this key right and principle. It is shown that "traditional attitudes" are employed less as justification of poor implementation than as a way of allocating responsibility to the population rather than to the state party, and that references to tradition remain a mainly non-Western phenomenon, thus also overlooking the impact of traditional attitudes in Western societies.
Note
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - Uppsala universitet, 2006) issued as: The child's right to participation : reality or rhetoric? / Rebecca Stern.
In 'Implementing Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Participation, Power and Attitudes', Rebecca Thorburn Stern analyses how CRC state parties describe their implementation of Article 12 on respect for the child's views. The focus of the study is on if, and how, references to traditional attitudes are used by state parties to explain their actions and inactions when implementing this key right and principle. It is shown that "traditional attitudes" are employed less as justification of poor implementation than as a way of allocating responsibility to the population rather than to the state party, and that references to tradition remain a mainly non-Western phenomenon, thus also overlooking the impact of traditional attitudes in Western societies.
In 'Implementing Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Participation, Power and Attitudes', Rebecca Thorburn Stern analyses how CRC state parties describe their implementation of Article 12 on respect for the child's views. The focus of the study is on if, and how, references to traditional attitudes are used by state parties to explain their actions and inactions when implementing this key right and principle. It is shown that "traditional attitudes" are employed less as justification of poor implementation than as a way of allocating responsibility to the population rather than to the state party, and that references to tradition remain a mainly non-Western phenomenon, thus also overlooking the impact of traditional attitudes in Western societies.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-203) and index.
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Available in Other Form
Online version: Thorburn Stern, Rebecca, 1974- Implementing article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2017
Call Number
K639.A41989 T48 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9789004210547 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004210547 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
978900432453 (e-book)
9004210547 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
978900432453 (e-book)
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