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Suffer the Children

By Hiskes, Richard P

Suffer the Children

By Hiskes, Richard P

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In 1973, Hillary Rodham Clinton famously stated that children's rights is a slogan in search of a definition, used to bolster various arguments for peace and for specific rights, but without any coherent conception of children as political beings. In 1989, the United Nations established thebasis for this definition in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a document every nation in the world, save the United States, has ratified. Still, human rights theorists, scholars, and jurists continue to disagree as to the theoretical justification for children's human rights. In Suffer the Children, Richard P. Hiskes establishes the first substantive theoretical foundation for the human rights of children. As Hiskes argues, recognizing the rights of children fundamentally alters the meaning and usefulness of human rights in a global context. Ironically, the case forchildren's rights, as Hiskes argues, should be seen as the evolution, distillation, or maturing of human rights in general. Children's human rights will end the debate about whether groups can have rights because, globally, many rights claims today are precisely group claims, including those fromchildren. Moreover, Hiskes provides a new critical assessment of the United Nations CRC and explores child activism for human rights worldwide--in courts, on social networks, and in public demonstrations--to show how children are already claiming their rights in ways that will fundamentally changethe meaning both of rights themselves and of democratic processes. Giving children rights in a way that avoids privileging any single cultural experience of children would make rights no longer a Western, individualistic idea, but a truly global one.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
204
Release Date:
2021-08-01
Publication Date:
2021-08-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0197565999
ISBN13:
9780197565995
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
319 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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