Book contents
- The Child’s Right to Development
- The Child’s Right to Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Embedding the Protection of ‘Child Development’ into International Children’s Rights Law
- 2 Creating the Right to Development of Children
- 3 The Interpretation of the Right to Development by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- 4 Exploring the Meanings of Human and Child Development
- 5 A New Framework for Analysing the Child’s Right to Development
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2019
Book contents
- The Child’s Right to Development
- The Child’s Right to Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Embedding the Protection of ‘Child Development’ into International Children’s Rights Law
- 2 Creating the Right to Development of Children
- 3 The Interpretation of the Right to Development by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- 4 Exploring the Meanings of Human and Child Development
- 5 A New Framework for Analysing the Child’s Right to Development
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child tells a familiar, and very convincing, story about children, childhood, child development, and human rights. Under the Convention, the child is perceived as a person in the making who should enjoy the maximum available resources in order to develop into a competent adult at the age of 18. Consequently, many of the Convention’s rights explicitly, or by way of interpretation, support child development in one way or another – in addition to protecting the distinct and unique right of children to development.
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- The Child's Right to Development , pp. 211 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019