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One of the core principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is non-discrimination. However, little attention has been given to how this principle can protect children from discrimination because of age and childhood. This anthology brings together experts from children’s rights studies to explore both overall issues related to discrimination against children, as well as non-legitimate differential treatment in specific contexts – including climate crisis, child labour, migration, healthcare, and child protection. Attention is drawn to the potential to advance children’s rights in the framework of nondiscrimination in relation to children as a group.

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Author:   Aoife Daly ,  Pernilla Leviner ,  Rebecca Thorburn Stern
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Volume:   8
Weight:   0.597kg
ISBN:  

9789004708426

ISBN 10:   9004708421
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   04 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Contents Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Aoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner 2 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 2, and Discrimination on the Basis of Childhood: The CRC Paradox?  Aoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner 3 ‘Handle with Care’: Addressing Disadvantage Based on Childhood through a Non-discrimination Frame  Michael George Marcondes Smith and Wouter Vandenhole 4 Confronting Age Discrimination: The Importance of Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child  Claire Breen 5 Adultism, Normative Power, and Voting Age Discrimination  John Wall 6 Decolonizing Age Discrimination against Children in Intergenerational Relationships: Alternative Generationing and Generativities  Lucia Rabello de Castro 7 Nondiscrimination/Equality and Children’s Rights in the Climate Crisis  Aoife Daly 8 Working Children: Children without Childhood or Opponents against Age-Based Discrimination?  Manfred Liebel 9 The Devil Is in the Details(?): Age-Based Discrimination of Children in the Context of Migration  Rebecca Thorburn Stern 10 Children, Age Discrimination Law, and Consent to Surgery  Priscilla Alderson 11 Children as Bearers of Rights or of Problems? Non-legitimate and Unfair Treatment of Children in the Context of Combatting Gang Crime in Sweden  Pernilla Leviner Index

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Aoife Daly, Professor of Law, University College Cork. She is author of Children, Autonomy and the Courts (Brill | Nijhoff, 2018) and has a European Research Council grant to research child/youth climate justice around the world. Pernilla Leviner, Professor of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child at Stockholm University. Her research interests lie within and across the fields of public and family law and focus primarily on child protection and children’s rights. Rebecca Thorburn Stern, Professor of Public International Law at Uppsala University and Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. Her research encompasses the fields of migration law, children’s human rights, and the relationship between national and international law.

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