Combating child poverty-human rights approaches

Human Rights Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 680-706

  Van Bueren, Geraldine ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CHILD WELFARE; HUMAN RIGHTS; POVERTY; SOCIAL POLICY;

EID: 0033451566     PISSN: 02750392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hrq.1999.0045     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. This is consistent with Cotler's perception of "human rights as the modern tool of revolution." Irwin Cotler, Human Rights as the Modern Tool of Revolution, in HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: A GLOBAL CHALLENGE 7 (Kathleen E. Mahoney & Paul Mahoney eds., 1993).
2. This has been one of the reasons for the non-incorporation of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child in a number of jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and Israel.