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Summary: No convention has been acknowledged by
more countries more rapidly than the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child.
But what does the Convention look like
from the perspective of the laws and
practice of different countries? Ashgates Summary of the Publication
No convention has been acknowledged by more countries more rapidly
than the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. But what does the
Convention look like from the perspective of the laws and practice of
different countries? This book contains essays from a broad range of
countries on children's rights and how those countries' laws comply
or fail to comply with the Convention.
Contents: Introduction: children as persons; Argentina - children's
rights in family relationships: the gulf between law and social
reality; The Convention on the Rights of the Child : implications for
Canada; Children and the Convention: the Danish debate; The
Convention : an English perspective; The relevance of the Convention
on the Rights of the Child in Holland; Controversies and diemmas:
Japan confronts the Convention; Implementation of the rights of the
child in the Mozambican context; New Zealand and the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child: a lack of balance; Poland
three years after the Convention; The UN Convention on the Rights of
the Child and Russian Family law; Swiss Law and the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the child
pp 256Owner: Michael Freeman, University College London