Children's Rights and Sustainable Development
Interpreting the UNCRC for Future Generations

Considers how to implement children's rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.

Claire Fenton-Glynn (Edited by)

9781316643464, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 May 2022

423 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.565 kg

'Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn's brilliant edited collection links children's rights to the world's crucial Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through rigorous analysis, led by inspiring vision. This volume offers lawyers, legal scholars and policy leaders a coherent and carefully researched series of outstanding expert perspectives from rapidly advancing law and policy on sustainable development, while the pressing challenges and insights for the protection of the most vulnerable, our children and our future, secure its worth for all our libraries.' Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, University of Waterloo and University of Cambridge

Children often fare the worst when communities face social and environmental changes. The quality of food, water, affection and education that children receive can have major impacts on their subsequent lives and their potential to become engaged and productive citizens. At the same time, children often lack both a private and public voice, and are powerless against government and private decision-making. In taking a child rights-based approach to sustainable development, this volume defines and identifies children as the subjects of development, and explores how their rights can be respected, protected and promoted while also ensuring the economic, social and environmental sustainability of our planet.

Part I. A Children's Rights Approach to Sustainable Development: 1. Introduction Claire Fenton-Glynn
2. Children's rights and sustainable development from a 'law and development' perspective Wouter Vandenhole
Part II. Fundamental Rights: 3. Rethinking children's rights through a sustainability lens: implications for education Julie M. Davis
4. The right to participate in domestic law and policy development Holly Doel-Mackaway
5. What course without evils? Rare diseases, children's right to health and sustainable development goals Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz
6. Gender equality, children's rights and sustainable development Amanda Kron
7. Children with disabilities, human rights and sustainable development Paul Harpur and Michael A. Stein
Part III. Children and the Environment: 8. Inter-generational equity and children's rights: the role of sustainable development and justice Sumudu Atapattu
9. Children's rights and the environmental dimension of sustainable development Ellen Desmet
10. Children's rights and climate change Karin Arts
11. Inclusion of indigenous children's rights: informing water management in Canada Carissa Wong
Part IV. Children's Rights in a Gloablised World: 12. Children's rights, international trade law, and economic globalisation Sebastien Jodoin and Candice Pollock
13. Present needs and future prospects: exploring the policy conundrum of working children in developing nations Jenny Driscoll
14. Advancing the right to play in international development Tara M. Collins and Laura Wright
15. Rapid development and the child's future right to the city Liam Magee, Amanda Third and David Sweeting
16. Healthy diet as a global sustainable development issue: reasons, relationships and a recommendation Lucia A. Reisch and Wencke Gwozdz
Part V. Concluding Remarks: 17. The future research agenda: where to from here? Claire Fenton-Glynn
Index.

Subject Areas: Social impact of environmental issues [RNT], Family law: children [LNMK], Environment law [LNKJ], Child & developmental psychology [JMC], Child welfare [JKSB1]