Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Historical and contemporary perspectives on children's rights and the CRC -- 1. History of children's rights -- 2. Children's rights and women's rights: interrelated and interdependent -- 3. Children's rights: a framework to eliminate social exclusion? Critical discussions and tensions -- 4. Fixed concepts but changing conceptions: understanding the relationship between children and parents under the CRC -- 5. Children's rights and well-being -- 6. The convention on the rights of the child after twenty-five years: challenges of content and implementation -- Part 2: Social science and theoretical perspectives on children's rights -- 7. Anthropological perspectives on children's rights -- 8. Sociological approaches to children's rights -- 9. The psychology of children's rights -- 10. Philosophical perspectives on children's rights -- 11. Realising children's economic and social rights: towards rights-based global action strategies -- 12. The evolving capacities of the child: neurodevelopment and children's rights -- Part 3: Children's rights in legal, educational, health care and other settings -- 13. Health and children's rights -- 14. The right to be who you are: competing tensions among protection, survival, and participation related to youth sexuality and gender -- 15. Progress toward worldwide recognition of the child's human right to dignity, physical integrity and protection from harm -- 16. The continuing abuse and neglect of children -- 17. What stands in the way of children's exercise of their criminal procedural rights in the United States? our evolving and incomplete interdisciplinary understanding -- 18. Implementing children's education rights in schools -- 19. Children's rights to play: from the margins to the middle -- 20. Children with psychiatric disabilities: bioethical and genomic dilemmas -- Part 4: Global perspectives on children's rights -- 21. Children and adolescents in street settings: rights and realities -- 22. Children's education rights: global perspectives -- 23. Governance and children's rights in Africa and Latin America: national and transnational constraints -- 24. Independent children's rights institutions -- 25. Children's rights and digital technologies: introduction to the discourse and some meta-observations -- 26. Working children as subjects of rights: explaining children's right to work -- 27. Protection from sexual exploitation in the convention on the rights of the child -- 28. Child soldiers: the challenges and opportunities in addressing the rights of children affected by war -- Part 5: Children's rights in action -- 29. Children's right to write: young people's participation as producers of children's literature -- 30. Children's free association and the collective exercise of their rights -- 31. Child participation in local governance -- 32. Children's rights to child-friendly cities -- 33. Visual methods in participatory rights-based research with children and young people in Indonesia and Vanuatu -- 34. Child rights and practitioner wrongs: lessons from interagency research in Sierra Leone and Kenya -- 35. Children's voices about children's rights: thoughts from developmental psychology.

While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children's rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a noticeable shift in orientation from a focus on children's protection and provision to an emphasis on children's participation and self-determination. With contributions from a wide range of international scholars, this book brings together research, theory, and practice from diverse perspectives on children's rights.--Publisher's description.