Monitoring Progress Toward Fulfilling Rights in Early Childhood Under the Convention on the Rights of the Child to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families

Handbook of Early Childhood Development Research and Its Impact on Global Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hertzman, Clyde ^a   Vaghri, Ziba ^a   Arkadas Thibert, Adem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Accountability; Child rights; Development; Early childhood; Measurement; Monitoring; Substantive rights; United nations committee on the rights of the child

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923033199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199922994.003.0019     Document Type: Chapter

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