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This introductory text on the rights of the child covers all the issues involved in a comprehensive and accessible way. It offers criteria for considering children's self-expression, and provides practical examples, focusing on ordinary children in everyday situations. Key legal issues are included, and the book contains examples of practical issues from many different cultures. The authors open with a discussion of human rights in general, and then focus on the basis for rights for children and the role of the Convention. The second part of the book looks at participation rights and rights of self-expression in theory and practice; while the third section focuses on the exercise of the rights of self-expression, the empowerment of children, and how, in practical terms, this can be implemented.

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This book is both informative and thought-provoking in its content, style of writing, the factual information it presents and the conclusions it reaches. It gives a clear, comprehensive account of the development of research and legislation which has culminated in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child... Will give valuable insights and information to a variety of agencies and experts involved in working with children - social services, specialists in children's law, all professionals involved in educating children and, most importantly, parents... Difficult grey areas are debated and clarified such as what is a child? and what rights do children have? ... This is a book I shall purchase for the Staff Development Library and would encourage colleagues in Primary and Secondary education to read. -- International Journal of Children's Spirituality

This book is both informative and thought-provoking in its content, style of writing, the factual information it presents and the conclusions it reaches. It gives a clear, comprehensive account of the development of research and legislation which has culminated in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child... Will give valuable insights and information to a variety of agencies and experts involved in working with children - social services, specialists in children's law, all professionals involved in educating children and, most importantly, parents... Difficult grey areas are debated and clarified such as what is a child? and what rights do children have? ... This is a book I shall purchase for the Staff Development Library and would encourage colleagues in Primary and Secondary education to read. -- International Journal of Children's Spirituality

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M†lfrid Grude Flekk is a Norwegian clinical child psychologist who qualified at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Association of Psychologists as a specialist of child and adolescent psychology. From 1981 to 1989 she served as the first Ombudsman for Children in the world, after which she was appointed Senior Fellow at the UNICEF International Child Development Centre in Florence, Italy. Natalie Hevener Kaufman is Professor of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina and Director of the Office of Families and Democracy in Society.

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