Population Review Pub Date : 2021-03-09 , DOI: 10.1353/prv.2021.0003 Wouter Vandenhole
Abstract:
At first sight, child well-being and international children’s rights law have much in common. Specifically, they both focus on a category of human beings defined by age (children), and both are concerned about ‘child flourishing’. Surprisingly perhaps, the word well-being is rarely used in children’s rights work, and it is not very prominent in the leading human rights instrument on children’s rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In this paper, I pursue two objectives. First, I want to find out how the notion of child well-being has been constructed in international children’s rights and which proxies in the latter can help to imbue the concept with meaning. Second, I explore whether and how the fields of children’s rights law and child well-being may engage in a fruitful dialogue. I challenge the view that children’s rights are unable to offer more than a minimalistic checklist for child well-being, identify learning points for children’s rights, and propose speaking points for a sustained dialogue between the two fields.
中文翻译:
除了共同生活以外的关系:儿童权利对儿童福祉的看法
摘要:
乍一看,儿童福祉与国际儿童权利法有很多共同点。具体而言,他们都关注按年龄(儿童)定义的人类类别,并且都关注“儿童蓬勃发展”。令人惊讶的是,幸福一词在儿童权利工作中很少使用,在有关儿童权利的主要人权文书《儿童权利公约》中并不十分突出。在本文中,我追求两个目标。首先,我想了解如何在国际儿童权利中构建儿童福祉的概念,以及国际儿童权利中的哪些代理人可以帮助使这一概念具有意义。其次,我探讨了儿童权利法和儿童福祉领域是否以及如何进行富有成效的对话。