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Unaccompanied Migrant Children And Adolescents’ Rights In Colombia: Between Invisibility And Incapacity, Linda María Urueña Mariño

Master's Theses

This thesis centers on an analysis of the situation of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents transiting through and settling in Colombia, from a children’s rights perspective. These children are being invisibilized, which is causing their unprotection and multiple violations of their rights. Through a critical policy analysis, with a review of Colombian migration and child protection policies, and interviews with governmental and nongovernmental representatives working with migrant children in the country, the study aimed at contrasting policies with the real practices of migrant children protection.

The analysis recurred to Bauman, Butler, Crenshaw, among other authors to show how the Colombian …

Active Citizenship And The Rights Of The Egyptian Child "A Field Study Of A Sample Of Rural Families In Al- Buhaira Governorate”, Hanan Nasr

Journal of the Faculty of Arts (JFA)

The current study aimed to achieve three main objectives: for shed light on the values ​​of active citizenship and the efforts of parents in supporting the rights of the child in the rural community, to identify the practices of active citizenship among parents and their commitment to preserving the rights of the child in the rural family, and to reveal the contributions of fathers in promoting Active citizenship and reducing child rights violations in the rural family. The study was based on Giddens' structure formation theory and the indicators of active citizenship used by the European Social Survey in 2002. …

Childhood, Youth, And Globalization: Some Theoretical Perspectives With Reflections On China, Irving Epstein

Irving Epstein

This chapter, part of a collection honoring Ruth Hayhoe, is an examination of how consumerism and globalization impacts children and youth in China. The book is available in The Ames Library collection. More information about the book can be found on the publisher's website.

The Children's Rights Amendment And Family Law, Fergus Ryan

Other resources

This blog entry is part of a carnival blog posted to http://humanrightsinireland.wordpress.com/ It addresses the provisions of the proposed constitutional amendment on children's rights, as formulated by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children, published in February 2010. This brief comment analyses the proposal, with particular reference to its potential impact on children in non-traditional family units.