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From:Denver Journal of International Law and Policy (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION Although child soldiers that commit acts of atrocity and war crimes constitute a minority (1) of the estimated 250,000 child soldiers worldwide, (2) the question of their prosecution, as yet unsettled...
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From:Paediatric Nursing (Vol. 20, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedRights to fair treatment for vulnerable children and young people in the immigration and criminal justice systems have been enhanced following the government's decision to ratify the UN Convention of the Rights of the...
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From:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines some aspects of child protection practice in various Australian states. It does so from a parent's perspective through the framework of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 43, Issue 4)Peggy Cooper Davis has proposed that human dignity shoulders the burden of managing--if not resolving--the complex relationship of the state to the family as an entity and to the individual members of that entity, in...
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From:Global Governance (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere is very little research on whether global human rights regimes serve as tools for the promotion of a domestic agenda of rights within democratic states, although their role under authoritarianism has been...
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From:Georgetown Journal of International Law (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION International law provides no explicit guidelines for whether or at what age child soldiers should be prosecuted for grave violations of international humanitarian and human rights law such as genocide,...
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From:American Journal of Law & Medicine (Vol. 35, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Over the past several years, new vaccines have become available to prevent serious illnesses and conditions in the adolescent population. Several have already been approved by the FDA for use in this age...
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From:Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article argues that international humanitarian and human rights law follow a hegemonic Western social construction which, in practice, sees childhood as precious, vulnerable, and in need of adult protection. Thus,...
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From:Melbourne University Law Review (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed[There are increasing calls for judges to take children's rights seriously. However, the problem with such calls is that they invariably fail to address the factors that undermine the capacity of a judge to engage with...
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From:Social Policy Journal of New Zealand (Issue 37) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This paper reports on a study that examined children's perceptions of the prevalence, incidence and impact of violence experienced or witnessed by them, and factors that mitigated and reduced its impact. A...
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From:St. Thomas Law Review (Vol. 24, Issue 1)I. INTRODUCTION The story of the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and undocumented immigrant, Jose Antonio Vargas, gives a face to the controversial and political debate about the educational rights of undocumented...
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From:Refuge (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In order to achieve secure status in Canada, asylum seekers must go through a lengthy, three-stage procedure involving (1) eligibility determination, (2) refugee status determination, and (3) application for...
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From:Childhood Education (Vol. 78, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a particularly exciting time at the United Nations for many professional organizations, like ACEI, that advocate for children worldwide. We have been busy preparing for the United Nations General Assembly's...
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From:International Journal of Educational Reform (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe objective of this article is to determine the incidences of immigration and globalization on the French educational values and reforms. To explore these two dimensions, it is necessary to give a historical...
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From:Kutafin University Law Review (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCrimes being committed by juveniles in Vietnam are increasing in number and are becoming more serious in nature, and furthermore, there is a greater number of juvenile criminals committed crimes at an earlier and earlier...
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From:Washington University Global Studies Law Review (Vol. 17, Issue 3)I. INTRODUCTION In the past five years, astounding numbers of unaccompanied children have migrated across Europe and North America, fleeing from social and economic instability, gang violence, armed conflict, and...
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From:Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article argues from a South African perspective that national experience in attempting to fulfil the right to health supports the need for an international framework. Secondly, we suggest that this framework is not...
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From:Social Work (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe United States and Somalia are the only two countries in the world that have not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Opposition in the United States stems from the CRC's demand...
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From:Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedChild labor exists everywhere, even in the United States. Exemptions in the Fair Labor Standards Act chip away at the law's effectiveness and create loopholes for abuse, particularly with children employed in...
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From:The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMedia holds the power to create, maintain, or break down stigmatizing attitudes, which affect policies, funding, and services. To understand how Canadian news media depicts the commercial sexual exploitation of children...