Children's Rights: New Issues, New Themes, New Perspectives Children's Rights (new Issues, New Themes, New Perspectives)

This Collection Of Essays By A Variety Of Scholars, Compiled To Celebrate The Silver Anniversary Of The International Journal Of Children's Rights, Builds On Work Already In The Literature To Reveal Where We Are Now At And How The Law Concerned With Children Is Reacting To New Developments. New, Or Relatively New Subject Matter Is Explored, Such As Film Classification, Intersex Genital Mutilation, The Right To Development. Rights Within The Context Of Sport Are Given An Airing. We Are Offered New Perspectives On Discipline, On The Significance Of Rights Flowing Downhill, On The So-called Six General Principles. The Uses To Which The Crc Is Put In Legal Reasoning In Some Legal Systems Is Critically Examined. Though Not Intended As An Audit, The Collection Offers A Fascinating Image Of Where The Field Of Children's Right Is At Now, The Progress That Has Been Made, And What Issues Will Require Work In The Future-- Introduction -- Do Rights Still Flow Downhill? / Katherine Hunt Federle -- Does Exactly Waht It Says On The Tin? : A Critical Analysis And Alternative Conceptualisation Of The So-called General Principles Of The Convention On The Rights Of The Child / Karl Hanson And Laura Lundy -- Common Criticisms Of Children's Rights And 25 Years Of The Ijcr / Priscilla Alderson -- Philosophy With Children : A Rights-based Approach To Deliberative Participation / Claire Cassidy -- The Role Of Canada's Child And Youth Advocates : A Social Constructionist Approach / Daniella Bendo And Richard C. Mitchell -- What Is Discipline In The Age Of Children's Rights? / Joan E. Durrant And Ashley Stewart-tufescu -- Developing The Right To Development / Noam Peleg -- Intersex Genital Mutilation : A Western Version Of Fgm / Melinda Jones -- Norwegian Children's Rights In Sport And Coaches' Understanding Of Talent / Jan Emil Ellingsen And Anne G. Danielsen -- Children's Participation Rights In Film Classification Systems / Tim Covell -- Teaching And Learning Traditions In Children's Human Rights Curriculum Empaheses In Theory And Practice / Lotta Brantefors And Nina Thelander -- Stand Up To Children's Rights : An Exercise In Listening In English As A Foreign Language / Rigoberto Castillo, Natalia A. Gabalo And Natalia Segura -- Use Of The Uncrc In Family Law Cases In England And Wales / Stephen Gilmore -- Words Matter : Textual Abuse Of Childhood In The English-speaking World, And The Role Of Language In The Continuing Denial Of Children's Rights / Bernadette J. Saunders -- Article 12 Of The Un Convention On The Rights Of Children : Where Have We Come From, Where Are We Now And Where To From Here? / Mark Henaghan -- Tales Of The Apocalypse : The Child's Right To A Secure Climate / Anne Mcgillivray. Edited By Michael Freeman. Originally Published As Volume 25, No. 2 (2017) Of Brill's Journal The International Journal Of Children's Rights--verso Title Page. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Children’s Rights: New Issues, New Themes, New Perspectives 3 Copyright 4 Contents 5 Introduction 7 Do Rights Still Flow Downhill? 12 Does Exactly What it Says on the Tin?: A Critical Analysis and Alternative Conceptualisation of the So-called “General Principles” of the Convention on the Rights of the Child 23 Common Criticisms of Children’s Rights and 25 Years of the IJCR 45 Philosophy with Children: A Rights-based Approach to Deliberative Participation 57 The Role of Canada’s Child and Youth Advocates: A Social Constructionist Approach 72 What is “Discipline” in the Age of Children’s Rights? 95 Developing the Right to Development 115 Intersex Genital Mutilation – A Western Version of FGM 130 Norwegian Children’s Rights in Sport and Coaches’ Understanding of Talent 146 Children’s Participation Rights in Film Classification Systems 171 Teaching and Learning Traditions in Children’s Human Rights: Curriculum Emphases in Theory and Practice 188 Stand Up to Children’s Rights: An Exercise in Listening in English as a Foreign Language 203 Use of the UNCRC in Family Law Cases in England and Wales 230 Words Matter: Textual Abuse of Childhood in the English-Speaking World, and the Role of Language in the Continuing Denial of Children’s Rights 249 Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Children: Where Have We Come from, Where Are We Now and Where to from Here? 266 Tales of the Apocalypse: The Child’s Right to a Secure Climate 281 Index 297 Annotation This collection of essays by a variety of scholars, compiled to celebrate the silver anniversary of the International Journal of Children's Rights, builds on work already in the literature to reveal where we are now at and how the law concerned with children is reacting to new developments. New, or relatively new subject matter is explored, such as film classification, intersex genital mutilation, the right to development. Rights within the context of sport are given an airing. We are offered new perspectives on discipline, on the significance of 'rights flowing downhill', on the so-called six 'General Principles'