Treated Like a Child : Age Discrimination and Children's Rights /

Treated Like a Child : Age Discrimination and Children's Rights /

One of the core principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is non-discrimination. However, little attention has been given to how this principle can protect children from discrimination because of age and childhood. This anthology brings together experts from children's rights s...

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Other Authors: Daly, Aoife (Editor), Leviner, Pernilla (Editor), Stern, Rebecca Thorburn (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 2025.

Series: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children's Rights ; 8.

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Age discrimination > Law and legislation.
Children (International law)
Children > Legal status, laws, etc.

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Call Number: K639.A41989

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction
  • Aoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner
  • 2 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 2, and Discrimination on the Basis of Childhood: The CRC Paradox?
  • Aoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner
  • 3 'Handle with Care': Addressing Disadvantage Based on Childhood through a Non-discrimination Frame
  • Michael George Marcondes Smith and Wouter Vandenhole
  • 4 Confronting Age Discrimination: The Importance of Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • Claire Breen
  • 5 Adultism, Normative Power, and Voting Age Discrimination
  • John Wall
  • 6 Decolonizing Age Discrimination against Children in Intergenerational Relationships: Alternative Generationing and Generativities
  • Lucia Rabello de Castro
  • 7 Nondiscrimination/Equality and Children's Rights in the Climate Crisis
  • Aoife Daly
  • 8 Working Children: Children without Childhood or Opponents against Age-Based Discrimination?
  • Manfred Liebel
  • 9 The Devil Is in the Details(?): Age-Based Discrimination of Children in the Context of Migration
  • Rebecca Thorburn Stern
  • 10 Children, Age Discrimination Law, and Consent to Surgery
  • Priscilla Alderson
  • 11 Children as Bearers of Rights or of Problems? Non-legitimate and Unfair Treatment of Children in the Context of Combatting Gang Crime in Sweden
  • Pernilla Leviner
  • Index.