Children's Rights and the Tenuousness of Local Coalitions
A Case Study in Nicaragua
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| ID | 3592145 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Richard Maclure (University of Ottawa), Melvin Sotelo (Fundación Centro Tecnológico de la Información y la Comunicación) |
| Ano | 2004 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 85-108 |
| Data de publicação | 2004-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022216x03007089 |
| OpenAlex | W2261595215 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 8 |
Since Nicaragua's endorsement of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the legislative passage of its own Code of Childhood and Adolescence, improvements in the welfare of marginalised youth have depended largely on community-based actions that are sponsored by NGOs and civic groups, many of which function in tangent with municipal government authorities and international aid agencies. In this article we review three community initiatives that have aimed at resolving problems associated with youth alienation and violence in a poor, heavily populated district of Managua. While some modest successes have been achieved, these relatively isolated initiatives have had no evident effect on either the magnitude or the systemic nature of youth marginalisation in Managua. In a context in which the central state is severely constrained by fiscal weakness and corporatist traditions, it is questionable whether in fact the organs of civil society do in fact possess the organisational capacity to generate the structural reforms necessary for the advancement of children's rights at community levels. Nevertheless, despite the amorphous nature of much of civil society in Nicaragua, in the long run children's rights legislation may help to foster growing solidarity among disparate civic forces working to improve the bleak livelihoods of many children
Civil society · Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Legislation · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Solidarity · State (computer science) · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Public Administration
| Obras citantes distintas | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 0,36 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2004 - 2015 (12) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 6 |