Contents:
Preface;
Introduction:
Human rights of children: from visions to implementation?;
1.The value and values of children's rights, Michael Freeman;
2. Are children's rights still human?, Nigel Cantwell;
3. Understanding a human rights based approach to matters involving children: conceptual foundations and strategic considerations, John Tobin;
4. The CRC: dynamics and directions of monitoring its implementation, Jaap E. Doek; 5.Acknowledging children as international citizens: a child-sensitive communication mechanism for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Geraldine van Bueren;
6.Has research improved the human rights of children? Or have the information needs of the CRC improved data about children?, Judith Ennew;
7. How are the human rights of children related to research methodology?, Harriot Beazley, Sharon Bessell, Judith Ennew and Roxana Waterson;
8. Using the Convention on the Rights of the Child in law and policy: two ways to improve compliance, Ursula Kilkelly;
9.Using the CRC to inform EU law and policy-making, Helen Stalford and Eleanor Drywood; 10.The roles of independent children's rights institutions in implementing the CRC, Brian Gran;
11.Multi-level governance and CRC implementation, Jane Williams;
12. Human rights and child poverty in the UK: time for change, Rhian Croke and Anne Crowley;
13.An exploration of the discrimination-rights dynamic in relation to children, Elspeth Webb;
14.Child health equity: from theory to reality, Jeffrey Goldhagen and Raúl Mercer;
15.Our rights, our story: Funky Dragon's report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, Funky Dragon;
Index.