Putting Children First

Save the Children Fund in 1923 and UNICEF in 1990 both declared that children must come first in receiving relief. Whereas SCF's call was a corporate credo for the world, for use whenever disaster struck, UNICEF's was offered as a strategic policy document applicable at all times. In contrast, the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as a legally-binding document in the field of human rights, omitted all reference to giving such priority to children. The reason for transforming the original credo is that the principle of 'children first', if it includes every child and is to be applied literally in the field, is not only impracticable but unacceptable in many cultures. The social value of a particular child's life - or of human life generally - is simply not an absolute, in all circumstances, in all cultures

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• Shifting the Narrative

  Open Access•Tony Tanner, Thomas Tanner•Children & Society•2010

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• A Review of Children’s Rights Literature Since the Adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

  Open Access•Didier Reynaert, Maria Bouverne-de-Bie et al.•Childhood•2009

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• Disaster impact and recovery

  Open Access•Claire Freeman, K Nairn et al.•Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of…•2015

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• The Great War, the child's body and the American Red Cross

  Open Access•Friederike Kind‐kovác•European Review of History Revue…•2016

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• Indigenous Categories of Distress and Dysfunction in South African Xhosa Children and Adolescents as Described by Indigenous Healers

  Open Access•Karin Ensink, Brian Robertson•Transcultural Psychiatric…•1996

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• Enfants sorciers à Kinshasa (RD Congo) et développement des Églises du Réveil

  Jérôme Ballet, Claudine Dumbi et al.•Mondes en développement•2009

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• Death Without Weeping

  Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Nancy Scheper‐Hughes•Death Without Weeping•1992

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