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With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the "property to persons" trajectory that other human rights stories had followed. In the first edition of A Question of Commitment, editors R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell provided a template of analysis for understanding this evolution. They identified three overlapping stages of development as children transitioned from being regarded as objects to subjects in their own right: social laissez-faire, paternalistic protection, and children's rights. In the social laissez-faire stage, children are regarded as objects, and largely as the property of parents. In the paternalistic protection stage, children are seen as vulnerable and in need of protection. The children's rights stage lays emphasis on children as rights-bearers, as individuals in their own right with entitlements. In this second edition, new essays assess the extent to which children's rights have been incorporated into their respective areas of policy and law. The authors draw conclusions about what the situation reveals about the status of children in Canada. Overall, many challenges remain on the pathway to full recognition and citizenship.

Children's rights --- Children --- Government policy --- Convention on the Rights of the Child --- . --- Child Participation. --- Children and Citizenship. --- Children and Public Policy. --- Children and Social Policy. --- Children and the Law. --- Children as Persons. --- Children as Property. --- Children's Rights. --- Future of Childhood. --- Human Rights. --- International Law. --- Protecting Children. --- The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. --- The Welfare of Children. --- Views of Children.

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The universal feeling that discrimination and intolerance based on race. religion or beliefs have to be confronted by the international community led to the adoption, half a century ago, of the international convention to which this book is devoted, one of the most ratified treaties. The book comments on the contents of the Convention and its impact on anti-racist and anti-bias legislation and jurisprudence, as well as its influence on, and applicability to other international texts. In an Introduction to this reprint, the author updates the status of the Convention, summarizes the work of CERD, the implementation body of the Convention, and discusses its relevance to general human rights, particularly the area of religious intolerance, and some difficult issues such as the possible clash with other fundamental freedoms.

Race discrimination --- Law and legislation. --- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination --- Jinshu sabetsu teppai jōyaku --- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, International --- Internationales Übereinkommen zur Beseitigung jeder Form von Rassendiskriminierung --- Konvensi Internasional Tentang Penghapusan Segala Bentuk Diskriminasi Rasial --- Convención Internacional sobre la Eliminación de todas las Formas de Discriminación Racial --- UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination --- اتفاقية الدولية للقضاء على جميع اشكال التمييز العنصري --- Ittifāqīyat al-Dawlīyah lil-Qaḍāʼ ʻalá Jamīʻ Ashkāl al-Tamyīz al-ʻUnṣurī --- Race discrimination Law and legislation --- Law and legislation

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Book of the Disappeared confronts worldwide human rights violations of enforced disappearance and genocide and explores the global quest for justice with forceful, outstanding contributions by respected scholars, expert practitioners, and provocative contemporary artists. This profoundly humane book spotlights our historic inhumanity while offering insights for survival and transformation.

Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Law and legislation --- Afghanistan --- Holocaust --- Cambodia --- Extraordinary Rendition --- United States --- United Nations --- Gender --- Syria --- Latin America --- Bosnia --- Execution --- Iran --- Enforced Disappearance --- Kashmir --- Guatemala --- Iraq --- Mass graves --- Transitional Justice --- Reparation --- International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances --- UN Convention --- Transnational Justice --- Rwanda --- Exhumation --- Burma --- Half widows --- Genocide --- Historical Memory --- Human Rights --- Rohingya --- Healing --- International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Pr --- Disappeared persons. --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism. --- Genocide.

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This is the very first edited collection on International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the oldest of the UN international human rights treaties. It draws together a range of commentators including current or former members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), along with academic and other experts, to discuss the meaning and relevance of the treaty on its fiftieth anniversary. The contributions examine the shift from a narrow understanding of racial discrimination in the 1960s, premised on countering colonialism and apartheid, to a wider meaning today drawing in a range of groups such as minorities, indigenous peoples, caste groups, and Afro-descendants. In its unique combination of CERD and expert analysis, the collection acts as an essential guide to the international understanding of racial discrimination and the pathway towards its elimination.

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination --- Jinshu sabetsu teppai jōyaku --- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, International --- Internationales Übereinkommen zur Beseitigung jeder Form von Rassendiskriminierung --- Konvensi Internasional Tentang Penghapusan Segala Bentuk Diskriminasi Rasial --- Convención Internacional sobre la Eliminación de todas las Formas de Discriminación Racial --- UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination --- اتفاقية الدولية للقضاء على جميع اشكال التمييز العنصري --- Ittifāqīyat al-Dawlīyah lil-Qaḍāʼ ʻalá Jamīʻ Ashkāl al-Tamyīz al-ʻUnṣurī --- Anti-racism --- Minorities --- Race discrimination --- Racism --- History. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation. --- Prevention --- CERD. --- Gypsyism. --- ICERD. --- Romani sentiment. --- UNDRIP. --- dignity. --- equality. --- global dialogue. --- indigenous peoples. --- international human rights law. --- international law. --- international order. --- mutual respect. --- racist hate speech.

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Many have praised the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), first adopted by the UN in 2006, as a revolutionary step towards disability rights in Africa. But how real is the progress towards equality for persons with physical disabilities, mental health difficulties, blindness, deafness or albinism? What are the barriers to the CRPD's successful implementation on the continent, and how might we enforce inclusiveness and equality among those disadvantaged? This book brings together the findings of researchers in Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa to offer grassroots' perspectives on the challenges and possibilities of achieving disability rights under the CRPD. Challenging the generally optimistic view presented to date, the contributors provide evidence-based trenchant critiques of the Convention, highlight the ways in which disability rights are interpreted in varying contexts and with different disabilities, and examine particular issues in relation to children and women. Finally, the contributors suggest ways of moving forward and achieving disability rights in Africa.

People with disabilities --- Social integration --- Social conditions. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Inclusion, Social --- Integration, Social --- Social inclusion --- Sociology --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities --- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol --- CRPD --- Shōgai no aru hito no kenri ni kansuru jōyaku to sono sentaku giteisho --- Konvensi PBB Mengenai Hak-Hak Orang Dengan Disabilitas --- UN CRPD --- UNCRPD --- United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol --- Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad --- Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad y su Protocolo Facultativo --- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities --- Convention relative aux droits des personnes handicapées et Protocole facultatif --- Convenção Internacional sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência e seu Protocolo Facultativo --- Convenção sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência e seu Protocolo Facultativo --- Convenção sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência --- Africa. --- African Countries. --- Albinism. --- Barriers. --- Blindness. --- CRPD. --- Challenges. --- Children. --- Deafness. --- Disability Equality. --- Disability Rights. --- Disadvantaged. --- Equality. --- Grassroots Perspectives. --- Implementation. --- Inclusiveness. --- Mental Health Difficulties. --- Persons with Disabilities. --- Physical Disabilities. --- Progress. --- UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. --- UN Convention. --- Women. --- Civil rights --- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.