Age discrimination and children's rights; ensuring equality and acknowledging difference.9004148272 Age discrimination and children's rights The opportunity for children to participate in political and legal decisions that affect them; in a broad sense, the rights of children to live free from hunger, abuse, neglect, and other inhumane conditions. ; ensuring equality and acknowledging difference. Breen, Claire. Martinus-Nijhoff 2006 226 pages $108.00 Hardcover International studies in human rights; v.86 HQ789 Breen (law, U. of Waikato, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. ) examines national laws and international human rights treaties concerning children's rights within the framework of non-discrimination and equality. The text considers the role of the State in balancing children's rights and parental rights in several specific contexts. Coverage includes theories surrounding the implementation of children's rights, from historical perceptions emphasizing philosophies of paternalism paternalism (p  ·terˑ·n and
paternal authority to more modern conceptions; issues of capacity,
choice and consent in medical treatment; human-assisted reproduction and
the child's right to identity; corporal punishment corporal punishment, physical chastisement of an offender. At one extreme it includes the death penalty (see capital punishment), but the term usually refers to punishments like flogging, mutilation, and branding. Until c. in New Zealand
and the power of parental rights; the rights of at-risk children in
Ireland; and the rights accorded to Irish-born children of asylum-
seekers. Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill Brill or Bril, Flemish painters, brothers.Mattys Brill (mä`tīs), 1550–83, went to Rome early in his career and executed frescoes for Gregory XIII in the Vatican. . ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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