Both opinions the three-judge panel handed down warned of a potential climate catastrophe. Only one judge said the courts have an active role to play in making the government change course.
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Since the second world war, every generation has worried that children are spoilt, cosseted, or being corrupted by new technologies. But, on many measures, today’s children are doing just fine.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is empowering children around the world by encouraging them to see themselves as important and valuable members of society.
In a recent report, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child was highly critical of the Australian government for its youth justice failures and the rise of children with mental health issues.
To protect the futures of today’s children and youth, schools and universities must go beyond Eurocentric approaches that dissect particulars yet miss the larger point.
The most effective way to provide children in the CAR with access to education is to aim interventions at them directly.
With more cases of women such as Shamima Begum expected, the UK is under legal obligations to protect the rights of any children involved.
ClassDojo, the popular classroom behaviour management and communication system, is said to facilitate community and message-sharing. But who is asking how children are impacted?
New energy to advocate for planetary health could be unleashed through career guidance that prepares future generations for climate change while inspiring them to envision a meaningful future.
The UK is terrible at creating child-friendly environments and children are suffering for it.
When children are drawn into their countries’ informal justice systems, their human rights are often threatened.
The Trump administration is trying to spike a lawsuit against the US government arguing that there’s a constitutional right to a stable climate.
While the UK does not indefinitely detain children, there are cases where minors are held – and in extreme cases, separated from their parents.
Conservatives on migration claim that allowing the DACA recipients to stay shows disrespect for the law. The moral principles that underlie the American legal system, however, tell a different story.
We want our children to flourish. To ensure that they do, we need to help them develop their sense of good and evil, justice and injustice. Engaging in politics is crucial to this development.
For centuries, most children’s books reinforced messages that children are unimportant, incompetent and powerless. Children need to shape up and adopt adults’ values. Children must change to fit into an…
Here’s what can be done.
A number of African states are taking positive steps to combat violence against girls and child marriage. But social and cultural barriers can nullify national laws and strategies.
Changes that would widen the gulf between Australian practice and international standards should be avoided at all costs.
South African law requires surrogate mothers to hand infants to their legal parents without undue delay. But it doesn’t provide leave for these parents to care for their infants. That is set to change.
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor of Law, University College Cork; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Professor of Teacher Education, University of Toronto
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Extraordinary Research Fellow: South African Research Chair in Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability, Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Jeffrey Bain Scholar & Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University
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Philip H. Knight Professor of Law, University of Oregon
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Associate professor, Faculty of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
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Professor of Social Work, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Human Rights Law, Queen's University Belfast