Age discrimination and children's rights : ensuring equality and acknowledging difference / Claire Breen.

By:

Breen, Claire

Material type: Text

TextSeries: International studies in human rights ; v. 86.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : M. Nijhoff, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789047417538
9047417534
1282396544
9781282396548
9786612396540
6612396547

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Age discrimination and children's rights.DDC classification:

323.3/52 22

LOC classification:

HQ789 .B74 2006eb

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Contents:

'Difference' or discrimination? Exploring the concepts underpinning children's rights, discrimination and the need to acknowledge difference -- Children's rights and medical treatment : issues of capacity, choice and consent -- Human-assisted reproduction and the child's right to identity -- The corporal punishment of children in New Zealand : the power of parental rights in New Zealand -- Taking liberties : the detention of the at-risk child in Ireland -- Age discrimination and the rights of Irish-born children of asylum seekers.

Summary: Explores the extent to which children's rights are secured at the national level, and the reasons why they have or have not been recognised and secured by various states at the level of domestic law. This book examines the theoretical and legal underpinnings of gender and race discrimination, at both the domestic and international level.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Explores the extent to which children's rights are secured at the national level, and the reasons why they have or have not been recognised and secured by various states at the level of domestic law. This book examines the theoretical and legal underpinnings of gender and race discrimination, at both the domestic and international level.