HUMA 1970 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Paternalism, Contract
21 Feb 2018
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Global childhood: children as objects of national and global concern (ch 3) 20th century as the century of the child . Emergence of children as the focus of national and international policy. Despite advances in the conditions of childhood, children and childhood remain objects of concerns in global south and remain global north. Although there were advances, children and childhood are still something of concern. Global childhoods: the uncrc and the construction of the normative global child (ch. The uncrc enshrines universal children"s rights in international law. Uncrc emerges from earlier welfare or protection-based approaches but signals the dominance of a rights-based approach to children through the principle of participation. Shifting from protections and welfare to participation rights. Debates on the uncrc highlight tensions concerning its claims to universalism and its construction of a normative global child. Only us hasn"t signed it because their parental rights are in conflict with children"s rights. From the grdc (1924) to the uncrc (1989)
