To browse Academia. This book interrogates the international child protection regime, with a particular focus on its weaknesses and failures. It looks at the lack of accountability, the normativity, and the tendency to recreate patterns of power and exclusion that blight otherwise good intentions. The book assesses why the regime falls short of its ideals and offers ideas for what can be done to improve it.
Bringing together influential, established voices, and emerging scholars who work on issues related to childhood, youth, policy, and practice, the book offers a timely intervention that aims to push the world of international child protection in more progressive directions. This paper looks at the pandemic of abuse and violence against children worldwide, and examines the historical and cultural roots of these systemic human violations.
It proposes strategies to better safeguard children globally, including education and a legal mechanism to hold government officials-national and local-accountable when they fail to protect children from abuse, enslavement, murder, and other crimes, and all too often profit from them. Unlike the legal traditions of the East, the recognition of children's special and vulnerable position, evolving capacity and independent entitlements began to inform the legal frameworks of the West only in the last century or so.
While the League of Nations took note of the rights of children in the 's, the topic has drawn increasing public attention in recent times. With the recognition of the vulnerabilities of varied segments of people and their respective rights under the UN system -refugees, civilians caught up in armed conflicts, colonized peoples, women, ethnic, racial and religious minorities, etc. Consequentially, an impressive range of international norms that define the rights of, and offer protection for, children has become part of the global human rights discourse.
The issue of children's rights has become key to human rights-based international security strategies. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is being operationalised in complex political emergencies. Children's rights now inform humanitarian principles.
