Children's rights as human rights: Reading the UNCRC

The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 377-393

  Freeman, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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