Treated Like a Child

Age Discrimination and Children's Rights
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-70842-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children’s Rights

One of the core principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is non-discrimination. However, little attention has been given to how this principle can protect children from discrimination because of age and childhood.

This anthology brings together experts from children’s rights studies to explore both overall issues related to discrimination of children, as well as non-legitimate differential treatment in specific contexts – including climate crisis, child labour, migration, healthcare, and child protection. Attention is drawn to the potential to advance children’s rights in the framework of nondiscrimination in relation to children as a group.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Daly, Aoife

Leviner, Pernilla

Thorburn Stern, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction Aoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner

2 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 2, and Discrimination on the Basis of Childhood: The CRC Paradox? Aoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner

3 ‘Handle with Care’: Addressing Disadvantage Based on Childhood through a Non-discrimination Frame Michael George Marcondes Smith and Wouter Vandenhole

4 Confronting Age Discrimination: The Importance of Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Claire Breen

5 Adultism, Normative Power, and Voting Age Discrimination John Wall

6 Decolonizing Age Discrimination against Children in Intergenerational Relationships: Alternative Generationing and Generativities Lucia Rabello de Castro

7 Nondiscrimination/Equality and Children’s Rights in the Climate Crisis Aoife Daly

8 Working Children: Children without Childhood or Opponents against Age-Based Discrimination? Manfred Liebel

9 The Devil Is in the Details(?): Age-Based Discrimination of Children in the Context of Migration Rebecca Thorburn Stern

10 Children, Age Discrimination Law, and Consent to Surgery Priscilla Alderson

11 Children as Bearers of Rights or of Problems? Non-legitimate and Unfair Treatment of Children in the Context of Combatting Gang Crime in Sweden Pernilla Leviner

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aoife Daly, Professor of Law, University College Cork. She is author of Children, Autonomy and the Courts (Brill Nijhoff, 2018) and has a European Research Council grant to research child/youth climate justice around the world.

Pernilla Leviner, Professor of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child at Stockholm University. Her research interests lie within and across the fields of public and family law and focus primarily on child protection and children’s rights.

Rebecca Thorburn Stern, Professor of Public International Law at Uppsala University and Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. Her research encompasses the fields of migration law, children’s human rights, and the relationship between national and international law.