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This contribution seeks to investigate the elaboration of the right of the child to health in the Convention on the … to health care, as this is the first element of article 24 CRC and also the minimum essential basis from which any other … health intervention can be made. Secondly, investigated is how the differential roles and legal responsibilities of parents …
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The justification of the child's right to know her origins and the fundamental interests underlying it have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. This article goes one step further and assesses that right's enforcement in practice together with its guiding principles. It starts by...
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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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common affair in Bangladesh. The children have basic rights to education, health and nutrition, a balanced diet, protection …
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"Child labour constitutes a major public health concern, with estimates that world-wide 110 million children aged 5 … and public health perspectives on child labour. A rights approach ensures that exploitative and abusive work is considered … not just in terms of a labour market or health rights approach, but also in terms of human dignity and the solutions that …
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as a public-health concern, a human rights concern, and ultimately as both, leading to the development of approaches … using human rights concepts and methods to advance maternal and neonatal health. We describe the different contributions of … the international community, women’s health advocates and human rights activists. We briefly present a recent effort …
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This paper analyses the health-improving effects of introducing four different constitutional social and environmental … human rights (health, free education, adequate living (or welfare), and environment) and the American Convention on Human … active. By using retrospective fertility surveys conducted in 15 Latin American countries from the Demographic and Health …
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Apart from the increasing attention paid to the role of business in society, with an expanded awareness of the link between the business sector and human rights, over the last decade, there has been a trend of trying to understand the relative impact of businesses on children's rights. After the...
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