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This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is part of the series, A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which provides an article by article analysis of all substantive, organizational and procedural provisions of the CRC and its two Optional Protocols. For every article, a comparison with related human rights provisions is made, followed by an in-depth exploration of the nature and scope of State obligations deriving from that article. The series constitutes an essential tool for actors in the field of children’s rights, including academics, students, judges, grassroots workers, governmental, non- governmental and international officers. The series is sponsored by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office.
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This collection offers a series of essays highlighting many of the most controversial of contemporary issues relating to children, medicine and health care including the participation rights of children, genetic testing, male circumcision, organ donation, gender reassignment, the rights of autistic children, anorexia nervosa. Essays are written by a range of leading scholars across a range of disciplines. A number of the essays in this collection were previously published in the International Journal of Children's Rights.
In: Families Across Frontiers
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The Dause macabre has long mystified historians of literature and the arts. The very origin of the term is obscure, as is the nature of the dance. Nobody imagines that skeletons actually accompanied the living to their graves but numerous pictorial representations from the fifteenth century do show what appear to be gloating figures reminding the living of their eventual demise and miming a dance, if not on their graves, at least on the way to it. The most famous of these was in the Cemetery of the Innocents in Paris, painted in 1424 and reproduced in print half a century later. These, and other cultural manifestations tending to stress the horrors of life, have led historians to see the period as an unremittingly gloomy one. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate by recourse to contemporary texts that it is possible to see the age in a very different light. In the second half of the fifteenth century, a time in France of renewal and increased prosperity, dancing and good living were very much on the agenda, to the delight of some and the consternation of others. While moralising poets such as Jehan Regnier, Guillaume Alexis, Eloy d’Amerval, and Nicolas de la Chesnaye rail against ‘plaisirs mondains’ (and by implication, good food and drink, fashionable clothes, dancing, and sexual enjoyment), others, such as the anarchic Guillaume Coquillart, revel in the fun to be had by those who joyfully take part in the dance of life.

In: Sur quel pied danser?
In: Children's Rights: New Issues, New Themes, New Perspectives
In: Law in Society: Reflections on Children, Family, Culture and Philosophy
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This volume is in part intended to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. We are now a generation on from its formulation, and, as this varied collection of articles by leading thinkers in the field reflects, children's rights have come a long way. Yet the aim of this volume is not to look back, but to take stock and look forward. It explores subjects as diverse as socio-economic rights, corporal punishment, language and scientific progress as they relate to children and their rights, and offers new insights and new ideas. Edited by one of the most respected and leading scholars in the field, The Future of Children's Rights constitutes a stimulating and useful resource for academics and practitioners alike.
Selected Essays on Children's Rights
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For decades, Professor Michael Freeman has without doubt been one of the world's most infuential scholars in international children's rights. His scholarship has been at the forefront of the field and has helped shape many of the developments within it. This collection offers the reader a thought-provoking snapshot of some of his most seminal essays, written and/or published over the past 30 years. Together they highlight above all the interdisciplinary nature of the issues he discusses. Legal doctrinal questions that make the case for recognising that children have rights are of course discussed. But aspects of moral and political philosophy are dealt with as well, in addition to, among other other disciplines, history, theology, psychology and antropology.
In: The Future of Children’s Rights
In: The Future of Children’s Rights