Suffer the Children
A Theoretical Foundation for the Human Rights of the Child
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 October 2021
- ISBN 9780197565995
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 241x157x15 mm
- Weight 318 g
- Language English 203
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Short description:
In 1989, the United Nations established the basis for the definition of "children's rights" 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. Hiskes provides a new critical assessment of the United Nations CRC and explores child activism for human rights worldwide to show how children are already claiming their rights in ways that will fundamentally change the meaning both of rights themselves and of democratic processes.
MoreLong description:
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 the basis 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 for children'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 from children. 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 change the 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.
Richard Hiskes does what has been long overdue, offers a theory of human rights that is grounded on an idea of humans as they are, not as enlightenment elites imagined themselves to be. By centering the question of the rights of children, he offers us not only a theory of the human rights of children, but also a re-grounded theory of human rights for all.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Legacy of Child Exclusion: From Hobbes to the Present Lacuna in Human Rights Theory
Chapter 2: Vulnerable in Nature: Environmental Human Rights and the Claims of Generations
Chapter 3: Dignity and Dependency: The Honor of Children's Human Rights
Chapter 4: Beyond Victimhood: The CRC and the Human Rights of a Dignified Child
Chapter 5: From Participation to Citizenship: Every Child's Human Right to an "Open Future"
Chapter 6: Children Claiming the Future of Human Rights: "Global Kids" in Courts, on Networks, and in the Streets
Chapter 7: Toward a More Youthful Democracy and a More Mature Human Rights
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