Human Rights in Children's Literature

Jonathan Todres is a Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law. His research focuses on children's rights and child well-being. Professor Todres has published more than fifty articles on children's rights, child trafficking and related forms of exploitation, legal and cultural constructs of childhood, and human rights in children's literature. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Sarah Higinbotham is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her scholarship centers on the intersections of literature and law. She has written about the violence of the law in early modern England, critical prison theory, and human rights in children's literature. She teaches at a men's prison outside Atlanta and works actively with an Atlanta nonprofit that benefits children who have an incarcerated parent.

Foreword by Carol Bellamy, Former Executive Director of UNICEF

Preface by Jonathan Todres

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Making Children's Rights Widely Known

Chapter 2: Participation Rights and the Voice of the Child

Chapter 3: Confronting Discrimination, Pursuing Equality

Chapter 4: Identity Rights and Family Rights

Chapter 5: Civil and Political Rights of Children: Accountability with Dignity

Chapter 6: Securing Child Well-being: The Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of the Child

Chapter 7: Adults in the World of Children's Literature

Chapter 8: Reading, Rights, and the Best Interests of the Child

Appendix 1: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Appendix 2: Discrimination against Children

Appendix 3: Cinderella around the World

Appendix 4: Empirical Study: How Children Interpret Human Rights in Stories

Children's Literature Bibliography

Bibliography

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Index