'Rights are everything we don't have': Clashing conceptions of vulnerability and agency in the daily lives of Rwandan children and youth

Children's Geographies

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 427-440

  Pells, Kirrily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

children's rights; everyday life; participation; rights based approaches; Rwanda

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867888470     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2012.726072     Document Type: Article

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