Overview
- Expands on the 2006 UNICEF Report’s contention that children are “invisible” in law and policy
- Based on the implications of children’s specific biology and their vulnerability in relation to industrial developments, conflicts and climate change
- Discusses the discriminatory component to be found in many laws intended to protect children, which significantly limits their effectiveness
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Child Law starts with the question “Who is the Child?” In direct contrast to the CRC, which calls for putting the interests of the child first in all policies dealing with children, it appears that the interests of others are the major consideration de facto. In law, children’s right to protection is severely limited by the presence of a maximum age limit, with no consideration of the starting point: current and ongoing scientific research has demonstrated the effects of this non-consideration in a number of abnormalities and diseases, not only in children, but in adults and the elderly. The WHO has published a number of studies to that effect and the 2012 Report on Endocrine Disruptors more than confirms this claim. This and other scientific insights that have largely been ignored show the flaws and inadequacies of the legal regimes intended to protect children, in a number of areas, from the basic public health to the right to normal development; child labor law conventions; in conflict situations; as a result of climate and other events; children as illegal migrants and as inmates in prison camps.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Who Is the Child? Rights and Obligations in Conflict
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Critical Lacunae in Child Law: Insufficient and Incomplete Instruments Regarding the Born Child
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Child Law
Book Subtitle: Children's Rights and Collective Obligations
Authors: Laura Westra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05071-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05070-6Published: 01 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38190-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05071-3Published: 17 June 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 178
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Rights, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Philosophy of Law