Children's Rights: Today's Global Challenge

by John Wall

This accessible and authoritative book provides the first systematic overview of the global children’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’s Rights: Today’s Global Challenge lifts up the rights of the youngest third of humanity as the major human rights challenge of the twenty-first century.

198 pages, Paperback

Published October 12, 2016

Reviews

[Sue Lyle · Rating 5 out of 5]

John Wall is a philosopher who has written a comprehensive, systematic and accessible book on children's rights. A must read for all those who work with children, are planning to work with children, who train others to work with children or who are simply parents. As well as providing a comprehensive overview of the history of children's rights he gives contemporary examples of rights in action across the world through stories he has gathered. He challenges us to think of the 21st century as the century of children's rights and this provides us with the knowledge and inspiration to make this a reality.

[Alba M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Again, it's a good introduction but it suffers from many of the same problems of "Give Children the Vote". Full liberation of young people now.