'Children Out of Place' and Human Rights: In Memory of Judith Ennew (Children's Well-Being: Indicators and Research)

This volume brings together tributes to Judith Ennew’s work and approach based on issues related to children she once referred to as ‘out of place’, that is to say children whose living conditions and ways of life appear far removed from Western images of childhood. It includes contributions on working children, children living on the street, orphans and victims of sexual exploitation. It covers developments and concepts used by Judith Ennew with an emphasis on perspectives of children’s human rights, their participation, cultural sensitivity, research methodology, methods, ethics, monitoring, policy making and programming. In so doing, it brings together material that form a holistic view of not only her way of thinking, but of a policy and programming agenda developed by a number of researchers, academics and activists since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. 

Dr Brian Milne: Research consultant, specialist in children’s rights and related areas.  Co-wrote The Next Generation: Lives of Third World Children (Zed Press, 1989) with Judith Ennew. He has also taught and trained children’s rights. 

Mrs Rebecca Budde holds a diploma in cultural science from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany and is currently working on her PhD. She is a co-founder of the European Network of Masters in Children’s Rights, which was established in 2004 by several European University representatives with the aim to establish Children’s Rights in higher education and to promote adult attitudes that recognize and respect children as subjects of rights with own opinions and views. She also coordinates the MA Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights at Freie Universität Berlin.