The Child's Right to Development

Informationen zum Autor Noam Peleg is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, where he researches and teaches international children's rights law and family law. He has published and presented widely on children's rights matters and also has consulted for non-governmental organisations in the United Kingdom and Australia. Noam is the book review editor and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Children's Rights. Before moving to academia, Peleg practised law in several human rights NGOs, where he specialised in representing children in courts. Klappentext A comprehensive analysis and innovative, holistic interpretation of the child's right to development. Zusammenfassung This book is for academics! practitioners! policy-makers and civil society actors working in the fields of children's rights! child development! family law and! more broadly! child law and childhood studies. Based on interdisciplinary research! it suggests a new and radical conception of childhood and the meaning of children's right to development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Embedding the protection of 'child development' into international children's rights law; 2. Creating the right to development of children; 3. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's interpretation of the right to development; 4. Exploring the meanings of human and child development; 5. A new framework for analysing the child's right to development; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Noam Peleg, Noam (University of New South Wales Peleg, Peleg Noam
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781107094529
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09452-9
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, Age groups: children, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Family law: children