UNIGE - Children's Human Rights - An Interdisciplinary Introduction 

General Presentation

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: from drafting to reception.

1.2bis CRC General Principles

1.3 Main content of the CRC and the related States obligations

1.4 UN Committee on the right of the child: role, structure, functioning and method of works

1.5 The CRC Communications procedure

1.6 Overview regional monitoring system

1.7 The role of the INHRIs on Children?s rights in the monitoring process at national and local level

1.8 NGOs? role in the monitoring process

1.9 Children's subjective indicators: children?s participation in monitoring

Syllabus

Quiz of Module 1

2.1 Introduction

2.2 History of childhood: a state of the art

2.3 Children and Health from the Renaissance to the Revolution

2.4 Children during the industrial revolution

2.5 Saving the children after WWI and the Geneva Declaration

2.6 International Organizations and Human rights: From Protection Rights to Children?s Human Rights

2.7 Regional evolution of children's rights: voices from a recent past - Introduction

Quiz of Module 2

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Interdisciplinary children's rights studies

3.3 Fruits, salads, and smoothies: working together for understanding children's rights

3.4 Schools of thought in children's rights

3.5 Agency and structure in childhood studies

3.6 The anthropology of childhood

Quiz of Module 3

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Overview of the international legal framework on juvenile justice and child protection

4.3 Interview on the Council of Europe Guidelines on child friendly justice: background and motivation

4.4 Minimum age of criminal responsibility

4.5 Protecting children's rights in JJ systems / ?What works?: Effective methods to reduce juvenile delinquency

4.6 Deprivation of Liberty

4.7 Children as victims and witnesses

4.8 Restorative Juvenile Justice

4.9 Torture

Quiz of Module 4

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Violence against children: An overview

5.3 The vulnerable child: A historical perspective

5.5 Emerging challenges in the protection of children

5.6 Internet, social media and violence against children

5.7 Combatting child trafficking

5.8 A revolution in pofessional practices

Quiz of Module 5

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Introduction to participation rights

6.3 The right of the child to be heard: General Comment no.12

6.4 Children?s Rights and Recognition

6.5 Children's participation as social actors

6.6 Sampling of implementation procedure

6.7 Childhood policy and children's subjective indicators

6.8 The rights to be heard in judicial settings

6.9 Ethical research procedures

6.10 Child participation in research

Quiz of Module 6

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Overview on the traditional practices phenomenon

7.3 Child witchcraft allegation: invented traditional practices

7.4 FGM: the girl child

7.5 Global health, human rights and ethics

7.6 Children's rights and global mental health

7.7 Children?s right and the obesity epidemic

7.8 Children?s health and wellbeing: Issues and challenges from a human rights perspective

Quiz of Module 7