Claire Fenton-Glynn, ed, Children’s Rights and Sustainable Development: Interpreting the UNCRC for Future Generations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Children often fare the worst when communities face social and environmental changes. The quality of food, water, affection and education that children receive can have major impacts on their subsequent lives and their potential to become engaged and productive citizens. At the same time, children often lack both a private and public voice, and are powerless against government and private decision-making. In taking a child rights-based approach to sustainable development, this volume defines and identifies children as the subjects of development, and explores how their rights can be respected, protected and promoted while also ensuring the economic, social and environmental sustainability of our planet.
In doing so, it: (1) Provides a child-rights based approach to sustainable development; (2) Considers a wide range of challenges facing children in the twenty-first century; and (3) incorporates authors from a wide range of disciplines – law, early childhood education, development studies
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