Social rights and the United Nations-Child rights convention (UN-CRC):Is the CRC a help or hindrance for developing universal and egalitarian social policies for children's wellbeing in the 'developing world'?

International Journal of Children's Rights

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 616-628

  Khadka, Suman ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

child rights; political economy of child rights; progressive realisation of rights; social policy; social rights; welfare regime; welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890418002     PISSN: 09275568     EISSN: 15718182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15718182-55680016     Document Type: Article

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