Protecting children in different contexts
Exploring the value of rights and research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12896904 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Crewe (0000-0003-0109-219X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-55 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Children s Services (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1746-6660 • E-ISSN: 2042-8677 |
| Publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5042/jcs.2010.0116 |
| OpenAlex | W2016426338 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 21 |
Many child‐focused civil society organisations (CSOs) working in Africa, Asia and South America have shifted from organising their work around children's needs to promoting their rights. The rights‐based frameworks they use are informed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This article explores the value of global rights. Ethnographic studies about the lives of young people and their transition into adulthood point to diversity of ideas about childhood in different parts of the world, raising questions about whether the idea of universal child rights can accommodate such varied worldviews. Yet CSOs have often failed to take account of this diversity in the way they use rights frameworks. Research by anthropologists about children in three situations ‐ at work, on the move and facing violence ‐ is used here to reveal the problems caused if rights frameworks are used without sufficient understanding of context and complexity
Child Rights · Civil society · Context (archaeology · Convention on the Rights of the Child · Diversity (politics · Ethnography · Geography · Human rights · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Work (physics · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
The myth of population control
At Home in the Street
Death Without Weeping
Development as Freedom
Towards better outcomes for children globally
Do Rights Promote Development
Children in development
Children and global social policy
Anti-Child Labour Rhetoric, Child Protection and Young Carpet Weavers in Kathmandu, Nepal
Can there be any universal children's rights
Gendered childhoods
Independent Child Migration and Education in Ghana
Children and development assistance
Escaping Violence, Seeking Freedom
Street Children, Human Rights, and Public Health
The Paradox of Child Labor and Anthropology
From Health to Human Rights
Dangerous Trade-offs
Reliving Childhood? The Temporality of Childhood and Narratives of Reincarnation
Like a White Piece of Paper'. Embodiment and the Moral Upbringing of Vietnamese Children
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2013 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |