Children's Rights: From Theory to Practice

Grant number: DP120104218 | Funding period: 2012 - 2017

Completed

Abstract

Children's rights are important but their scope contested. This project will clarify their meaning. It will provide guidance to legislators, policy makers and advocates working with or for children, and generate a deeper understanding of the role of rights in resolving some of the major challenges facing children in Australia and around the world.

Related publications (9)

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Fixed Concepts but Changing Conceptions: Understanding the Relationship Between Children and Parents under the CRC

J Tobin

2017-01-01

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The Development of Children's Rights

J Tobin

2017-01-01

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Children and the law of armed conflict: Looking beyond the protection paradigm

J Tobin, E Luke

2016-04-28

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Understanding children' s rights: A vision beyond vulnerability

J Tobin

2015-06-01

The idea of children' s vulnerability played a critical role in motivating the adoption of the un Convention on the Rights of a Ch..

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TO PROHIBIT OR PERMIT: WHAT IS THE (HUMAN) RIGHTS RESPONSE TO THE PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL SURROGACY?

John Tobin

2014-04-01

The rapid expansion of international commercial surrogacy arrangements has created serious ethical and legal dilemmas with respect..

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Justifying children's rights

J Tobin

2013-12-01

The conceptual foundations of children's rights remain under theorized. This paper develops a social interest theory of rights to ..

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Children's rights in Australia: Confronting the challenges

J Tobin

2013-01-01

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Donor-conceived individuals and access to information about their genetic origins: the relevance and role of rights.

John Tobin

2012-06-01

The discourse of rights has increasingly been used to frame debates about access to information for donor-conceived individuals. T..

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Courts and the Construction of Childhood: A New Way of Thinking

J Tobin

2012-03-08

This chapter explores what is meant by a new way of judicial thinking in which children are conceived of as independent subjects w..

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