Implementing Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Rebecca Thorburn Stern

ISBN 10: 9004210547 / ISBN 13: 9789004210547

Published by Koninklijke Brill BV Aug 2017, 2017

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Neuware - In Participation, Power and Attitudes: Implementing Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Rebecca Thorburn Stern analyses how CRC state parties describe their implementation of Article 12 on respect for the child's views. The focus of the study is on if, and how, references to traditional attitudes are used by state parties to explain their actions and inactions when implementing this key right and principle. It is shown that 'traditional attitudes' are employed less as justification of poor implementation than as a way of allocating responsibility to the population rather than to the state party, and that references to tradition remain a mainly non-Western phenomenon, thus also overlooking the impact of traditional attitudes in Western societies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Implementing Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Publisher: Koninklijke Brill BV Aug 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004210547
• ISBN 13: 9789004210547
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 14D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 493 grams

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Synopsis

In Participation, Power and Attitudes: Implementing Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Rebecca Thorburn Stern analyses how CRC state parties describe their implementation of Article 12 on respect for the child’s views. The focus of the study is on if, and how, references to traditional attitudes are used by state parties to explain their actions and inactions when implementing this key right and principle. It is shown that 'traditional attitudes' are employed less as justification of poor implementation than as a way of allocating responsibility to the population rather than to the state party, and that references to tradition remain a mainly non-Western phenomenon, thus also overlooking the impact of traditional attitudes in Western societies.

About the Author

Rebecca Thorburn Stern, LL.D. (2006), Uppsala University, is Associate Professor of International Law at that university. She has published widely on children’s rights and migration law, with particular focus on the implementation of international law on the domestic level.