It is rare for me to find that the information provided by children is not helpful. My experience has been that the discussion with children generates not only useful information, but is frequently a powerful tool in the continuing dialogue with the parents and social workers.
IICRD is compiling a book presenting challenging ideas and visions for advancing children’s rights.
The book will be composed of short essays or statements by human rights scholars and activists from around the world. Invited authors have been encouraged to describe a bold idea or vision for advancing children’s rights that is large or small in scale but that reaches beyond presently available thinking and strategies to challenge the world to live up to its children’s rights commitments. The publication will be in memoriam to Cynthia Price Cohen, an internationally recognized and respected champion of child rights and our dear friend, who passed away on 11 October 2007. The proceeds from the book will be applied in her name by IICRD to children’s rights projects. Samples of the essays contributed toward this book will be presented at this site for the next six months until the full publication is prepared. We hope you find these inspiring and we welcome your comments. Contact us at iicrd@uvic.ca
Contributions to date include the following:
Imagine a school...
Gerison Lansdown
International Child Rights Consultant, London
Living a Life of Joy & a Commitment to Children’s Rights
Howard Davidson, J.D.
Director, American Bar Association Center for Children and the Law, Washington DC
Protecting God’s Children
James Garbarino, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Human Rights of Children, Loyola University, Chicago
To Respect Child Rights, Attend to Family Needs: Perspectives on Early Development
Martha Farrell Erickson, Ph.D.
Children, Youth and Family Consortium, University of Minnesota
Cynthia and the Rights of the Most Vulnerable Children
Jaap E. Doek
Former Chairperson CRC Committee (2001-2007)
Realization of Self
Stuart Hart, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, International Institute for Child Rights and Development
Combatting Child Labor from a Human Rights Perspective
Burns H. Weston, Ph.D.
Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Senior Scholar, UI Center for Human Rights The University of Iowa
A Model of Accountability to Children
Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, Ph.D. - Research and Evaluation Director
Stuart Hart, Ph.D. - Director of Professions and Academic Institutions
Philip Cook, Ph.D. - Executive Director
What Will We Tell Alex?
William Myers, Ed.D
Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis
Cynthia Price Cohen: In Memoriam and Celebration of her Life and Legacy
Gertrud Lenzer, Ph.D
Professor of Children’s Studies and Sociology and Director, Children’s Studies Program and Center at Brooklyn College
Angels (and Neighbors) Watching Over Us
Gary B. Melton, Ph.D
Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life at Clemson University
I think it is time we seriously reconsider: have children's rights ever been a good idea?
Zoran Pavlović, Ph.D.
Director of The Counselling Centre for Children, Adolescents and Parents Ljubljana and senior research associate at the Education Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia