Children’s rights and global civil society

Fuchs, Eckhardt

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“…Breen (2003), Cohen (1990) and Therborn (1996) highlight the role of civil society organizations, in particular NGOs, in drafting the UNCRC. Fuchs (2007) presents a historical overview of the rise of a global civil society for children's rights and its involvement in production, diffusion and implementation of children's rights.…”

Section: The Global Children's Rights Industrymentioning

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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

2009

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Children’s rights have become a significant field of study during the past decades, largely due to the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1989. Today, scholarly work on children’s rights is almost inconceivable without considering the Convention as the bearer of the children’s rights debate. The goal of this article is to critically explore academic work on the UNCRC. By means of a discourse analysis of international literature, the article maps the academic discourse on children’s rights. Three themes are identified that predominate in the academic work on the UNCRC: (1) autonomy and participation rights as the new norm in children’s rights practice and policy, (2) children’s rights vs parental rights and (3) the global children’s rights industry. That these three themes distinguish contemporary scholarly work on the UNCRC might not be a coincidence, analysed from the process of ‘educationalization ’ that has characterized childhood in western societies since the 19th century. The perspective of educationalization presents a contemporary research agenda for children’s rights for the coming decades.

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Section: The Global Children's Rights Industrymentioning

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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

2009

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“…Advocates saw children as the worthy heirs of values that were shared across both generations and national boundaries; they were responsible for preserving those universal values between states, but also above and beyond them, to paraphrase Saunier (2004). The establishment of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) devoted to preserving the peace, and the reconversion of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) after the war finally led to a common approach to organizing childhood, which had been the subject of much discussion before the war (Fuchs 2007b).…”

Section: The Rights Of All Childrenmentioning

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The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959): Genesis, transformation and dissemination of a treaty (re)constituting a transnational cause

Moody¹

2015

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Over the course of the 20 th century, the social and legal status of the child evolved considerably. One remarkable illustration of this process can be seen by tracing the evolution of specific international treaties on the rights of the child. Although developments in national legislation inspired the authors of these treaties, it was through inter-and non-governmental organizations that the rights of the child developed a new dimension. Using archival data from several such organizations, this article adopts a transnational perspective to analyze how the 1959 United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child was drafted, institutionalized, and disseminated. The declaration joined together two causes: the defence of children and the promotion of the child's universal human rights. Thus the adoption of this declaration was an essential stage in reformulating transnational norms on the rights of the child.

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“…En un principio, desde una perspectiva claramente asistencial, sobre todo al centrarse en la infancia vulnerable, la infancia en conflicto con la justicia, la salud infantil, o la educación. Por decirlo de una manera más concluyente: este conjunto de congresos fue el caldo de cultivo que posibilitó, después de la Primera Guerra Mundial, el marco necesario para que esas políticas pudieran tomar cuerpo en un tratado internacional (Fuchs, 2007). Es decir, se puede observar una combinación de factores que permitió crear una «generación transnacional» sobre los derechos del niño (Moody, 2016).…”

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Los inicios transnacionales de los derechos de la infancia (primer tercio del siglo XX)

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Garmendia

2021

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The international recognition of children’s rights began in 1924 within the framework of the League of Nations, with the so-called Geneva Declaration. The aim of this article is to analyse the root causes that made this declaration possible, focusing on a set of international conferences that addressed the topic of child protection, as well as on the charters and declarations on the rights of the child and on the Geneva Declaration itself, which we analyse using content analysis. The main sources are three lesser-known documents: the Moscow Declaration, the Korczak Declaration, and a publication in which children drew pictures to illustrate their understanding of their rights. The primary conclusion is that at the beginning of the 20th century these activities and meetings, in addition to the texts defending children’s rights, and national protection policies and institutions, contributed to international recognition of the rights of children and adolescents, which, until that moment, had been only vaguely defined and lacked a solid legal framework. In this sense, there was a transnational phenomenon that moved from protecting children to recognising their rights, which were enshrined in the subsequent international treaties published throughout the 20th century, culminating in the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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Children’s rights and global civil society

Cited by 24 publications

References 20 publications

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

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

The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959): Genesis, transformation and dissemination of a treaty (re)constituting a transnational cause

Los inicios transnacionales de los derechos de la infancia (primer tercio del siglo XX)

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