Human Rights And Legal Services For Children And Youth

Author : Asha Bajpai,David W. Tushaus,Mandava Rama Krishna Prasad
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789819955510

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Human Rights and Legal Services for Children and Youth by Asha Bajpai,David W. Tushaus,Mandava Rama Krishna Prasad Pdf

This book discusses legal services clinics and various other access-to-justice initiatives that are established to protect and represent the rights and interests of children and youth in several countries across the globe. These could include legal services or access-to-justice clinics run by government or universities or community. The book has contributions from academicians, lawyers, researchers and legal professionals from several counties including India, UK, USA, Brazil, Australia, Indonesia, Poland, and Spain, which discuss how they represent children and youth in their countries. The book looks at how these access-to-justice initiatives currently provide assistance, what are the child friendly justice procedures they use, and best practices that can be replicable in other jurisdictions. The chapters contain findings of field research studies, some case studies, and models related to these topics. There are recommendations on ways to strengthen access-to-justice and legal services for empowering children and youth. The main goal is to create a resource for readers who want to expand child advocacy opportunities in their own universities and communities. The reader may also learn how to conduct legislative advocacy and case law advocacy to improve laws in other jurisdictions; and take-away best and replicable initiatives. The practices could be adaptable by other clinics and countries. The book will be useful to child rights advocates and defenders, students of law, legal researchers, civil society organizations, legal services authorities, legal aid institutions, educational institutions, school authorities, juvenile justice authorities, clinical legal educators, justice educators, justice practitioners and law and policy makers.

Author : Ursula Kilkelly,Ton Liefaard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Children's rights
ISBN : 9811031827

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International Human Rights of Children by Ursula Kilkelly,Ton Liefaard Pdf

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Author : Ned Lecic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : Children
ISBN : 1771992379

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The Law Is (Not) for Kids by Ned Lecic Pdf

"In this practical guide to the law for Canada's young people, Ned Lecic and Marvin Zuker provide an all-encompassing manual meant to empower and educate children and youth. The authors address questions about how rights and laws affect the lives of young people at home, at school, at work, and in their relationships and draw attention to the many ways in which a person's life can intersect with the law. Deliberately refraining from moralizing, the authors instead advocate for children and their rights and provide examples of how young people can get them enforced. In addition to being critical information for youth about citizenship, The Law is (Not) for Kids is a valuable resource for teachers, counsellors, lawyers, and all those who support youth in their encounters with the law."--

Author : Katherine Covell,R. Brian Howe,J.C. Blokhuis
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781771123570

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The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, 2nd edition by Katherine Covell,R. Brian Howe,J.C. Blokhuis Pdf

More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention cannot, however, guarantee that everyone will abandon proprietary notions about children, or that all children will be free to enjoy the substance of their rights in every social and institutional context in which they find themselves, including—and perhaps especially—within families. This disconnect remains one of the most important challenges to the recognition of children’s rights in Canada. The authors argue that social toxins are as harmful to children’s independent welfare and developmental interests as environmental toxins, and that both must be eradicated if Canada is to fulfill its commitments under the Convention. They also argue that if Canada wishes to ensure the substance of the rights outlined in the Convention are socially guaranteed, an attitudinal or cultural shift is required concerning the moral and legal status of children. This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the bestselling Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada will be of interest to academics, policymakers, parents, teachers, social workers, and human service professionals—indeed to anyone who cares about and for children.

Author : Amnesty International,Angelina Jolie,Geraldine Van Bueren
Publisher : Zest Books ™
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728449685

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Know Your Rights and Claim Them by Amnesty International,Angelina Jolie,Geraldine Van Bueren Pdf

A timely look at children's rights, the young activists who fought for them, and how readers can do the same by Amnesty International, Angelina Jolie, and Geraldine Van Bueren

Author : Ursula Kilkelly,Ton Liefaard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9811041830

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International Human Rights of Children by Ursula Kilkelly,Ton Liefaard Pdf

This book explores the meaning and implementation of international children’s rights law, as laid down in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and related international and regional human rights instruments. It considers the application of international children’s rights at the national level and addresses key procedural and institutional matters concerning children’s rights implementation, including monitoring, complaints mechanisms, effective remedies, advocacy and international agenda-setting. The book breaks new ground by analysing a wide range of international children’s rights issues from a legal perspective. It incorporates a comparative perspective on children’s rights law at the international, regional and domestic level and contains information on evidence-based strategies towards the implementation and enforcement of international children’s rights law. The book is targeted at academics, legal and other professionals, and advanced students. It analyses children’s rights law in the following areas: implementation and enforcement; advocacy and standard setting; complaints and remedies; the child and the family; adoption; alternative care; protection from violence; civil rights of the child; economic, social and cultural rights; education; health; migration and refugees; children and the justice system; children with disabilities; deprivation of liberty; children’s rights and digital technologies; war and disaster; sustainable development goals and further contemporary issues.

Author : Katherine Covell,R. Brian Howe
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780889208568

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The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada by Katherine Covell,R. Brian Howe Pdf

Canada signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child over a decade ago, yet there is still a lack of awareness about and provision for children’s rights. What are Canada’s obligations to children? How has Canada fallen short? Why is it so important to the future of Canadian society that children’s rights be met? Prompted by the gap between the promise of children’s rights and the reality of their continuing denial, Katherine Covell and R. Brian Howe call for changes to existing laws, policies and practices. Using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as their framework, the authors examine the continuing problems of child poverty, child care, child protection, youth justice and the suppression of children’s voices. They challenge us to move from seeing children as parental property to seeing children as independent bearers of rights. In The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada, Canada’s obligations and the rights of children are examined from the perspectives of research and development in the fields of developmental psychology, developmental neuroscience, law and family policy. This timely and accessible book will be of interest to academics, policy-makers and anyone who cares about children and about taking children’s rights seriously.

Author : Asgeir Falch-Eriksen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : 9783319948003

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Human Rights in Child Protection by Asgeir Falch-Eriksen Pdf

This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research – one that critically assesses child protection policy and professional practice with regard to human rights in general, and the rights of the child in particular. Each chapter author seeks to approach the rights of the child from their own academic field of interest and through a comparative lens, making the research relevant across nation-state practices. The book is split into five parts to focus on the most important aspects of child protection. The first part explains the origins, aim, and scope of the book; the second part explores aspects of professionalism and organization through law and policy; and the third part discusses several key issues in child protection and professional practice in depth. The fourth part discusses selected areas of importance to child protection practices (low-impact in-house measures, public care in residential care and foster care respectively) and the fifth part provides an analytical summary of the book. Overall, it contributes to the present need for a more comprehensive academic debate regarding the rights of the child, and the supranational perspective this brings to child protection policy and practice across and within nation-states. .

Author : Marsha Hill,Stewart Asquith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004638617

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Justice for Children by Marsha Hill,Stewart Asquith Pdf

This volume examines, from a number of different perspectives, the implications of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, for justice for children. The contributors are drawn from a cross-section of the community of individuals with an interest in or responsibility for children: academics, practitioners, policy makers and researchers. It therefore blends the academic with the practical and has immediate relevance for those researchers, lawyers, academics, fieldworkers and policy makers whose concern is children's rights. Justice for Children is based on proceedings of the International Conference on Justice for Children, held in Glasgow, September 1992

Author : Aisling Parkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135085261

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Children and International Human Rights Law by Aisling Parkes Pdf

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is one of the most highly ratified human rights treaties in the world, with 192 states currently signed up to it. Article Twelve is fundamental to the Convention and states that all children capable of forming views have the right to express those views, and recognises that all children have the right to be heard in any judicial and administrative proceedings affecting them. This book explores the historical and theoretical background to Article Twelve, and examines the various models of participation which have been created to facilitate a better understanding of this provision. Aisling Parkes analyzes the extent to which Article Twelve has been implemented under international law, and in domestic law, as well as setting-out recommendations for the most effective ways of implementing Article Twelve in all areas of children’s lives.

Author : Gayla Reid,Legal Services Society of British Columbia,Jacqueline Wood
Publisher : Legal Services Society, British Columbia
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Child abuse
ISBN : 0772651639

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Parents' Rights, Kids' Rights by Gayla Reid,Legal Services Society of British Columbia,Jacqueline Wood Pdf

Author : David Mikelberg,Nora Rock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : Children
ISBN : 1772554928

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Child and Youth Protection and Canadian Law by David Mikelberg,Nora Rock Pdf

"Child and Youth Protection and Canadian Law, 2e is a thoroughly revised and updated revision of the Child Protection and Canadian Law 1e, and reflects the recent introduction of Ontario's new Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:935874432

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Children and International Human Rights Law by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christine Coumarelos,Deborah Macourt,Julie People,Hugh M. McDonald,Zhigang Wei,Reiny Iriana,Stephanie Ramsey
Publisher : Law and Justice Foundation
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Justice, Administration of
ISBN : 9780909136963

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Legal Australia-wide Survey by Christine Coumarelos,Deborah Macourt,Julie People,Hugh M. McDonald,Zhigang Wei,Reiny Iriana,Stephanie Ramsey Pdf

"The Legal Australia-Wide Survey (LAW Survey) provides the first comprehensive quantitative assessment across Australia of an extensive range of legal needs on a representative sample of the population. It examines the nature of legal problems, the pathways to their resolution, and the demographic groups that struggle with the weight of their legal problems." -- Law and Justice Foundation of N.S.W. website.

Author : Jonathan Todres,Shani M. King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190097622

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The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law by Jonathan Todres,Shani M. King Pdf

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.