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This paper defines a category of ‘emancipation rights', encompassing both women's human rights and children's human rights. The paper argues that some of the emancipatory human rights challenges are the same for women and children: these concern the need to ‘see that category of people...
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This contribution seeks to investigate the elaboration of the right of the child to health in the Convention on the … Rights of the Child and the General Comments of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The purpose of this chapter is to …
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The justification of the child's right to know her origins and the fundamental interests underlying it have attracted a … balancing of the competing rights is contrasted with the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)'s focus on the child … understanding and ultimate reconciliation of the child's multiple identities - social and biological …
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million of them are under the age of 5 and about 73% of the child live in the village/ rural areas and 27% in urban areas …. However, one-third of these children spend their life below the international poverty line. The violation of child rights is a … basic rights. The government of Bangladesh with UNICEF has taken many steps to school for children and decrease child labor …
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offers three important innovations. First, we use reliable measures of the child’s cognitive, mental and emotional skills as … important implications for the quality of the parent-child relationship. -- cognitive skills ; noncognitive skills ; critical …
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This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...
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We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this purpose we design an R&D-based growth model in which the stock of human capital of the next generation is determined by parental education and health investments. We show that i)...
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