The Human Rights of Children

Dr Antonella Invernizzi is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Child Research at the University of Wales, Swansea. She has published extensively in the areas of Family organisation; poverty and survival strategies; gender; children’s work and child labour. Jane Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Wales, Swansea. A former practising barrister, her research interests are in the areas of Human Rights, particularly children's rights, and law and policy. She has published widely on these and related areas.

Contents: Preface; Introduction: human rights of children: from visions to implementation?; The value and values of children's rights, Michael Freeman; Are children's rights still human?, Nigel Cantwell; Understanding a human rights based approach to matters involving children: conceptual foundations and strategic considerations, John Tobin; The CRC: dynamics and directions of monitoring its implementation, Jaap E. Doek; Acknowledging children as international citizens: a child-sensitive communication mechanism for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Geraldine van Bueren; Has research improved the human rights of children? Or have the information needs of the CRC improved data about children?, Judith Ennew; How are the human rights of children related to research methodology?, Harriot Beazley, Sharon Bessell, Judith Ennew and Roxana Waterson; Using the Convention on the Rights of the Child in law and policy: two ways to improve compliance, Ursula Kilkelly; Using the CRC to inform EU law and policy-making, Helen Stalford and Eleanor Drywood; The roles of independent children's rights institutions in implementing the CRC, Brian Gran; Multi-level governance and CRC implementation, Jane Williams; Human rights and child poverty in the UK: time for change, Rhian Croke and Anne Crowley; An exploration of the discrimination-rights dynamic in relation to children, Elspeth Webb; Child health equity: from theory to reality, Jeffrey Goldhagen and Raúl Mercer; Our rights, our story: Funky Dragon's report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, Funky Dragon; Index.