Zusammenfassung der Ressource
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
- opened
for
signature
in 1979.
Came into
force 1989
- only Somali
and usa not
signed
- USA ARGUE IT GOES
AGAINST NATIONAL
SOVERIGNTY OF
INDIVIDUAL STATES
- 54 legally binding articles based on
chronological age
- 1)health,
2)education,
3)nationality,4)family
5)the right to partake
in decision making
- EDUCATION
- CHILDREN
HAVE THE
RIGHT TO GO
TO SCHOOL, NO
CONTRARTING
RIGHT OF NOT
NEEDING TO
ATTEND
- can be linked with child work
- JENS QVORTRUP: for
children education is
productive work - they are
future educated workforce (book 3)
- decision making
- shaping their environment is one way this happens
- Non Government Organisations
- concerned for working
children India. The child
worker is able to define and
research concerns that
shape their every day life
- HEALTH
- ensure the development and
survival of the child
- child has the right to
enjoy highest
attainable standard of
health and health
care facilities
- Family
- children's rights are best protected within families
- these are not
negotiable at local
level
- children's
rights are
human rights
- children are equal to adults
- MICHAEL FREEMAN - UNCRC
shifted the intervention in
children's lives from protection
to autonomy
- based on
premise that
children need
special
protection
- link with the romantics,
Rousseau, social
construction childhood is
seperate
- the terms rights and
duties do not feature in
the UNCRC in realtion to
children only in reference
to parents
- UNCRC'S belief that the a person is an autonomous individual doesn't easily translate
into other societies where children are see as parent's dependants and sometimes their
property (BK 4)
- ERICA BURMAN (1996)
- African Charter on
the rights and
welfare of the child
1990 (bk 4)
- stresses the rights and
duties of the child
- both adults and
children have
duties
- deals with culturally
relevant issues within
Africa
- children are expected to
care for their parents,
communities and Africa
itself
- CULTURAL RELATIVISM (bk 1)
- UNCRC from an anthropological standpoint
fails to consider the role of local
perspectives in defining rights and what
childhood is
- Anthropologists are
uneasy about universal
model of childhood based
on chronological age and
idea that everyone under
18 is a child
- example
of child
brides (bk
1 pg 188)