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    Children's rights : today's global challenge / John Wall.

    By: Wall, John, 1965- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: v, 191 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781442249776; 1442249773; 9781442249837; 1442249838Subject(s): Children's rights | Child labor | Child slaves | Children -- Legal status, laws, etc | Child labor | Child slaves | Children -- Legal status, laws, etc | Children's rightsAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Children's rights.DDC classification: 323.3/52 LOC classification: HQ789 | .W35 2017
    Contents:
    Why children's rights -- Theoretical controversies -- Historical ambiguities -- Education in an age of globalization -- The new child slavery -- The right to vote -- Today's global challenge -- Notes -- Index.
    Summary: "This accessible and authoritative book provides the first systematic overview of the global children{u2019}s rights movement. It introduces both beginners and experts to child and youth rights in all their theoretical, historical, cultural, political, and practical complexity. In the process, the book examines key controversies about globalization, cultural relativism, social justice, power, economics, politics, freedom, ageism, and more. Combining vivid examples with cutting-edge scholarship, Children{u2019}s Rights: Today{u2019}s Global Challenge lifts up the rights of the youngest third of humanity as the major human rights challenge of the twenty-first century."--Publisher's website.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Why children's rights -- Theoretical controversies -- Historical ambiguities -- Education in an age of globalization -- The new child slavery -- The right to vote -- Today's global challenge -- Notes -- Index.

    "This accessible and authoritative book provides the first systematic overview of the global children{u2019}s rights movement. It introduces both beginners and experts to child and youth rights in all their theoretical, historical, cultural, political, and practical complexity. In the process, the book examines key controversies about globalization, cultural relativism, social justice, power, economics, politics, freedom, ageism, and more. Combining vivid examples with cutting-edge scholarship, Children{u2019}s Rights: Today{u2019}s Global Challenge lifts up the rights of the youngest third of humanity as the major human rights challenge of the twenty-first century."--Publisher's website.

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