Campaigning for Children: Strategies for Advancing Children's Rights 1st Edition
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Advocates within the growing field of children's rights have designed dynamic campaigns to protect and promote children's rights. This expanding body of international law and jurisprudence, however, lacks a core text that provides an up-to-date look at current children's rights issues, the evolution of children's rights law, and the efficacy of efforts to protect children.
Campaigning for Children focuses on contemporary children's rights, identifying the range of abuses that affect children today, including early marriage, female genital mutilation, child labor, child sex tourism, corporal punishment, the impact of armed conflict, and access to education. Jo Becker traces the last 25 years of the children's rights movement, including the evolution of international laws and standards to protect children from abuse and exploitation. From a practitioner's perspective, Becker provides readers with careful case studies of the organizations and campaigns that are making a difference in the lives of children, and the relevant strategies that have been successful―or not. By presenting a variety of approaches to deal with each issue, this book carefully teases out broader lessons for effective social change in the field of children's rights.
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"For decades I have been familiar with Jo Becker's passion, thorough knowledge, and consistent drive for the children whose rights are systematically denied. This book examines initiatives and strategies to show that change for children is possible, and that remarkable transformation is achievable. Campaigning for Children, with its most compelling evidence, will go a long way in ensuring that human rights of children are protected worldwide." -- Kailash Satyarthi ― Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Children's Rights Activist
"Campaigning for Children carefully explores the concrete initiatives that have improved the lives of children, and highlights successful advocacy strategies. State authorities, academics, human rights institutions, civil society organizations, as well as the professionals who work with and for children will benefit from reading it. Becker's book is a vital resource in our collective effort to create a world fit for children." -- Benyam Dawit Mezmur ― UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
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- Publisher : Stanford University Press; 1st edition (August 15, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 232 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1503603032
- ISBN-13 : 978-1503603035
- Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.58 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,317,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #227 in Child Advocacy Family Law
- #551 in Civil Rights
- #2,452 in Human Rights Law (Books)
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The book includes many inspiring individual stories, such as that of Nujood Ali, a Yemeni girl who at 9 was married by her family to survive poverty and who escaped to better engage in the fight against early marriage. It shows how innovative technical programs providing only $7 per month to Moroccan families contributed to a nearly 70 percent reduction of school dropout rates and reduction of child labor rates. The book also provides insights into global campaigns, such as the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, which mobilized 70 states in just a bit more than two years to sign the Safe Schools Declaration in order to prevent attacks on schools or their military use. This book truly provides essential advice for researchers, academics, practitioners and activists on how to be successful when campaigning on child rights. I have shared it widely with my colleagues who are promoting the protection of children in war. Véronique Aubert, Save the Children.
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The book includes many inspiring individual stories, such as that of Nujood Ali, a Yemeni girl who at 9 was married by her family to survive poverty and who escaped to better engage in the fight against early marriage. It shows how innovative technical programs providing only $7 per month to Moroccan families contributed to a nearly 70 percent reduction of school dropout rates and reduction of child labor rates. The book also provides insights into global campaigns, such as the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, which mobilized 70 states in just a bit more than two years to sign the Safe Schools Declaration in order to prevent attacks on schools or their military use. This book truly provides essential advice for researchers, academics, practitioners and activists on how to be successful when campaigning on child rights. I have shared it widely with my colleagues who are promoting the protection of children in war. Véronique Aubert, Save the Children.





