Rethinking Child Protection from a Rights Perspective: Some Observations for Discussion

This paper focuses on the current re-consideration of international child protection paradigms and strategies and calls to the forefront key issues of concern in current approaches and suggests possible ways forward for the field. It articulates the guiding approaches of the network, and lays the groundwork for the current work in contextualizing protection.

The paper is now undergoing the third round of edits in order to incorporate the feedback of leading experts, such as Landon Pearson, and to include the many lessons learned from current network activities. UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre has agreed to publish this as an Innocenti Working Paper, enabling the network to reach an incredibly broad audience.
Prepared by

Dr. Susan Bissell[1],
Dr. Jo Boyden[2],
Dr. Philip Cook[3],
Dr. William Myers[4].

[1] UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, Italy.
[2] Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, U.K.
[3] International Institute for Child Rights and Development, University of Victoria, Canada.
[4] Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis, U.S.A.

The observations and opinions contained in this essay are those of the authors, and are not intended to represent positions of the institutions with which they are affiliated.