HR260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Refugee Law, Cultural Relativism, Moral Agency
12 Oct 2020
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The united nations convention on the rights of the child (1989) was the first international treaty to integrate all human rights in reference to children, allowing them to participate in family, cultural and social aspects of life. While it is the most widely ratified of all un human rights treaties, the children"s convention has brought to light some theoretical and practical problems in global children"s rights advocacy. Based on chapter 17 in your textbook, this lesson will guide you through an exploration of some of these theoretical and practical problems. The chapter illustrates these issues with a case study of the attempts to eliminate the corporal punishment of children. Children"s rights are comprehensively protected by a wide-ranging set of international and regional instruments spanning human rights, humanitarian and refugee law. The over- arching framework for children"s rights is the 1989 un convention on the rights of the.
