Child Rights and International Discrimination Law: Implementing Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

ISBN-13: 9781032241456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Marit Skivenes; Karl S?vig

Opis

Societies and states are at a crossroad in how children are treated and how their rights are respected and protected. Children´s new position and their strong rights create tensions and challenge the traditional relationships between family and the state. 

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Acknowledgement

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1

Discriminating Against Children.
Katre Luhamaa, Marit Skivenes & Karl Harald Søvig

Chapter 2

Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Non-Discrimination and Children’s Rights.
Elaine E. Sutherland

Chapter 3

Respecting Age: Discrimination against the Young and the Old.
David Archard

Chapter 4

The Ageing of Article 2(1): The Child’s Right to be Free from Age-Based Discrimination.
Claire Breen

Chapter 5

Illegitimate Consequences of ‘Illegitimacy’?: Article 2 UNCRC and Non-Marital Children in the British Isles.
Brian Sloan

Chapter 6

The non-discrimination principle in child protection: a snapshot on a seemingly trivial practice of transitions in care.
Tarja Pösö

Chapter 7

That time of the month: discrimination against girl children who cannot afford sanitary health care.
Lize Mills & Comine Howe

Chapter 8

Collateral Damage: Discrimination in Failure-to-Protect Laws for Children’s Wellbeing.
D. Kelly Weisberg

Chapter 9

Citizen Children and Unauthorized Immigrant Parents: Can Best Interest Analysis Relive Discrimination Based on Status.
Linda Elrod

Chapter 10

Hidden discriminatory practices in access to education for children with disabilities – a challenge for children’s rights.
Trynie Boezaart

Chapter 11

Starting from the System Building - Child Protection in China.
Liu Huawen

Chapter 12

The importance of Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child for refugee children.
Sonia Human

Chapter 13

Birth and Status: the Ongoing Discrimination against Children in Scots law based on Parentage.
Gillian Black

Index

O autorze

Marit Skivenes is a Professor at the Department for Administration and Organization Theory at the University of Bergen and the director of Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, University of Bergen, Norway.

Karl Harald Søvig is a Professor of law and the Dean at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen, Norway.