Author: Holly Doel-Mackaway
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351342630
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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This book presents a model for reforming and developing Indigenous related legislation and policy, not only in Australia, but also in other jurisdictions. The model provides guidance about how to seek, listen to and respond to the voices of Indigenous children and young people. The participation of Indigenous children and young people, when carried out in a culturally and age-appropriate way and based on free, prior and informed consent, is an invaluable resource capable of empowering children and young people and informing Indigenous related legislation and policy. This project contributes to the emerging field of robust, ethically sound, participatory research with Indigenous children and young people and proposes ways in which Australian and international legislators and policymakers can implement the principle of children’s participation by involving Aboriginal children and young people in the development of law and policy pertaining to their lives. This book provides accounts from Aboriginal children and young people detailing their views on how they can be involved in law and policy development in the future. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers, legislators, and students in the fields of human rights law, children’s rights, participation rights, Indigenous peoples’ law, and family, child and social welfare law.
Author: Holly Doel-Mackaway
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781138564664
Category : Children's rights
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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This book presents a model for reforming and developing Indigenous related legislation and policy, not only in Australia, but also in other jurisdictions. The model provides guidance about how to seek, listen to and respond to the voices of Indigenous children and young people. The participation of Indigenous children and young people, when carried out in a culturally and age-appropriate way and based on free, prior and informed consent, is an invaluable resource capable of empowering children and young people and informing Indigenous related legislation and policy. This project contributes to the emerging field of robust, ethically sound, participatory research with Indigenous children and young people and proposes ways in which Australian and international legislators and policymakers can implement the principle of children's participation by involving Aboriginal children and young people in the development of law and policy pertaining to their lives. This book provides accounts from Aboriginal children and young people detailing their views on how they can be involved in law and policy development in the future. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers, legislators, and students in the fields of human rights law, children's rights, participation rights, Indigenous peoples' law, and family, child and social welfare law.
Author: Holly Doel-Mackaway
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's rights
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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"Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (?CRC?) provides all people under the age of 18 years old with the right to express their views, and have these views considered in all matters affecting them. This provision includes children's right to be involved in the development of laws and policies likely to impact their lives. Australia ratified the CRC in 1990 yet the voices of children and young people, particularly Aboriginal children and young people, remain largely silent in law and policy development processes nationally. Field research undertaken in 2014 with Aboriginal children and young people in the Northern Territory of Australia highlights the vital role children and young people can play - if afforded the opportunity - in the development of laws and policies affecting them. This study provides the first documented accounts from Aboriginal children and young people detailing their views about the case study for this research: the Northern Territory Emergency Response and Stronger Futures legislation; as well as their views on how they can be involved in law and policy development in the future. A child rights-based approach informed by Indigenous research methodologies underpinned the methodological and ethical framework for this cross-cultural research to be undertaken. The thesis concludes by presenting practical suggestions for how a child rights-based approach supports Aboriginal children and young people's involvement in law and policy making."--Author abstract.
Author: Cynthia Price Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781571053503
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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December 2004 marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples. The Decade, and the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations, has brought enormous international attention to the situation of Indigenous People. Developing Rights of Indigenous Children is being published now to give interested readers and human rights advocates a valuable insider's view of the recent dramatic accomplishments in this rapidly-evolving field. The book is a collection of essays that are divided into four sections: Background (covering treaties, - such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, national legislation and tribal law); Important Indigenous Child Issues, (including cultural identity, land rights and health); Regional Indigenous Child Issues (which includes chapters about the issues concerning indigenous children in specific geographic areas, such as Alaska and Venezuela); and Voices of Youth (with essays by indigenous young people who give their views about their present circumstances and hopes for the future), The book's authors are all recognized authorities on indigenous issues and children's rights and include such luminaries as Jaap Doek (Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child - which monitors the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child) and Wilton Littlechild (Rapporteur for the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues). The editors, Cynthia Price Cohen and Philip Cook have been at the forefront of the indigenous child rights movement and are recognized authorities on Indigenous children's rights.
Author: Claire Fenton-Glynn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107193028
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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Considers how to implement children's rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.
Author: Jonathan Todres
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190097620
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 797
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Children's rights law is a relatively young but rapidly developing discipline. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the field's core legal instrument, is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. Yet, like children themselves, children's rights are often relegated to the margins in mainstream legal, political, and other discourses, despite their application to approximately one-third of the world's population and every human being's first stages of life. Now thirty years old, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) signalled a definitive shift in the way that children are viewed and understood--from passive objects subsumed within the family to full human beings with a distinct set of rights. Although the CRC and other children's rights law have spurred positive changes in law, policies, and attitudes toward children in numerous countries, implementation remains a work in progress. We have reached a state in the evolution of children's rights in which we need more critical evaluation and assessment of the CRC and the large body of children's rights law and policy that this treaty has inspired. We have moved from conceptualizing and adopting legislation to focusing on implementation and making the content of children's rights meaningful in the lives of all children. This book provides a critical evaluation and assessment of children's rights law, including the CRC. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners from around the world, it aims to elucidate the content of children's rights law, explore the complexities of implementation, and identify critical challenges and opportunities for children's rights law.
Author: Sonia Harris-Short
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317186125
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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This volume addresses the contentious and topical issue of aboriginal self-government over child welfare. Using case studies from Australia and Canada, it discusses aboriginal child welfare in historical and comparative perspectives and critically examines recent legal reforms and changes in the design, management and delivery of child welfare services aimed at securing the 'decolonization' of aboriginal children and families. Within this context, the author identifies the limitations of reconciling the conflicting demands of self-determination and sovereignty and suggests that international law can provide more nuanced and culturally sensitive solutions. Referring to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is argued that the effective decolonization of aboriginal child welfare requires a journey well beyond the single issue of child welfare to the heart of the debate over self-government, self-determination and sovereignty in both national and international law.
Author: Jonathan Todres
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190097612
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Children's rights law is a relatively young but rapidly developing discipline. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the field's core legal instrument, is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. Yet, like children themselves, children's rights are often relegated to the margins in mainstream legal, political, and other discourses, despite their application to approximately one-third of the world's population and every human being's first stages of life. Now thirty years old, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) signalled a definitive shift in the way that children are viewed and understood--from passive objects subsumed within the family to full human beings with a distinct set of rights. Although the CRC and other children's rights law have spurred positive changes in law, policies, and attitudes toward children in numerous countries, implementation remains a work in progress. We have reached a state in the evolution of children's rights in which we need more critical evaluation and assessment of the CRC and the large body of children's rights law and policy that this treaty has inspired. We have moved from conceptualizing and adopting legislation to focusing on implementation and making the content of children's rights meaningful in the lives of all children. This book provides a critical evaluation and assessment of children's rights law, including the CRC. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners from around the world, it aims to elucidate the content of children's rights law, explore the complexities of implementation, and identify critical challenges and opportunities for children's rights law.
Author: Ziba Vaghri
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030846474
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 429
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This open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It provides the reader with a unique and clear overview of the scope and core content of the articles, together with an analysis of the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. For each article of the UNCRC, the authors explore the nature and scope of corresponding State obligations, and identify the main features that need to be taken into consideration when assessing a State’s progressive implementation of the UNCRC. This analysis considers which aspects of a given right are most important to track, in order to monitor States' implementation of any given right, and whether there is any resultant change in the lives of children. This approach transforms the narrative of legal international standards concerning a given right into a set of characteristics that ensure no aspect of said right is overlooked. The book develops a clear and comprehensive understanding of the UNCRC that can be used as an introduction to the rights and principles it contains, and to identify directions for future policy and strategy development in compliance with the UNCRC. As such, it offers an invaluable reference guide for researchers and students in the field of childhood and children’s rights studies, as well as a wide range of professionals and organisations concerned with the subject.
Author: Newman, Dwight
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788115791
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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This ground-breaking Research Handbook provides a state-of-the-art discussion of the international law of Indigenous rights and how it has developed in recent decades. Drawing from their extensive knowledge of the topic, leading scholars provide strong general coverage and highlight the challenges and cutting-edge issues arising in international Indigenous rights law.
