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
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2019
- 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
‘I want to be big,’ says 12-year-old Josh Baskin to Zoltar Speaks, an arcade machine, in Penny Marshall’s 1988 film Big. The next morning, Josh wakes up inside the body of a 30-year-old man. Overnight, Josh has skipped the process of growing up and is transformed from a child into an adult. For international children’s rights scholars and advocates, the process of transformation is far more fraught. In fact, international children’s rights law dedicates much attention to this process by establishing the right of children to develop. This book shows how the process might be rethought, and why that might be worth doing for the intended agents and beneficiaries of international children’s rights law: children.
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- The Child's Right to Development , pp. 1 - 19Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019