Christianity's Mixed Contributions to Children's Rights

Browning, Don; Witte, John

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2011.01208.x

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“…In other words, the UNCRC seeks to balance the rights of children and parents to preserve a strong pro-family ethic. 62 While it cannot be denied that there can be situations within the family that require state intervention, it must be asked whether the practice of ritual male circumcision, which has been known in Europe for centuries, can by default be considered such a situation, as critics of the ritual seem to suggest. As long as it can be demonstrated that legal regimes of Europe and international human rights law have developed with the inclusion of such traditions, using these regimes to pass judgement on those traditions decontextualizes the law from its social origins.…”

Section: Children's Rights Minority Rights Religious Freedom Andmentioning

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Limits of Enlightenment and the Law - On the Legality of Ritual Male Circumcision in Europe today

Swatek-Evenstein¹

2013

Utrecht J Int Eur Law

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Section: Children's Rights Minority Rights Religious Freedom Andmentioning

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Limits of Enlightenment and the Law - On the Legality of Ritual Male Circumcision in Europe today

Swatek-Evenstein¹

2013

Utrecht J Int Eur Law

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Why has the United States of America not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child? The veto fulcrum as a new health policy analysis framework

Harris

2024

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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) enshrines health as a human right among other rights for children, the fulfillment of which can be advanced by each member state legally endorsing the principles through ratification of the Convention. The most rapidly and widely ratified human rights treaty in history, only the United States of America of all of the UN state parties has not ratified the CRC. This study aimed to determine the reason(s) the CRC has not been ratified by the USA. Method design involved a mapping literature search and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders in the fields of global health, child rights, health policy, and US law. Implementing Walt and Gilson's health policy triangle to systematize themes into content, context, processes, and actors as opposition or proponents of ratification, finds the literature favors ratification of the CRC. Critically, published literature focuses on pros and cons of ratification of the CRC, rather than reasons why the US has not ratified. Interview informants further expanded themes to elucidate how the history of opposition actors and processes has led to a chilling effect and a status quo of non-ratification, which has become increasingly challenging to overcome. Drawing on Tsebelis veto player theory to explain the status quo and introducing a new policy analysis framework of a veto fulcrum reveals that within the process of ratification, single powerful actors at a veto fulcrum have made undemocratic decisions, obstructing CRC ratification. By investigating American non-ratification of the CRC this research has forged a new policy framework, the veto fulcrum, which examines political systems where political actors, who might even be democratically elected, as veto players have extraordinary power to make executive decisions against public opinion, and against good health policy.

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Human Rights and Beyond: Some Conceptual Differences between Islamic and Western Perspectives of Human Rights

Oba¹

2012

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The world is pluralistic in many ways. It consists of peoples of diverse racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds. Several distinct civilizations have emerged from these diverse peoples. The major civilizations in the contemporary world include Western, Asian, African and Islamic civilizations. With these different civilizations come different ideologies, value systems and worldviews. Although Western civilization has become dominant in the world, Islamic civilization is its major rival. Some have argued that given the fundamental differences between Western and Islamic civilizations, a clash of civilizations is inevitable. This has become apparent particularly in the area of human rights. The international human rights law that emerged in the middle of the last century is dominated by Western thought and historical experience. These human rights lay claim to universality whereas there are conceptual and normative differences between Islamic and Western perspectives of human rights. This paper examines some of the fundamental differences in the concepts and terminologies used in the human rights discourse in Islamic and Western traditions. It also examines the ideological differences affecting their thinking on human rights, and the differences in conceptualizations and methods of enforcing human rights. This paper argues that the values embodied in the Western conception of human rights are not necessarily superior to those of Islam. On the contrary, some are patently inferior. Universal human rights across both civilizations can only emerge in the context of a genuine crosscultural dialogue when the West changes its perceived positional superiority and accepts Islamic civilization as an equal partner in the quest for the protection of the dignity and welfare of humankind.

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Christianity's Mixed Contributions to Children's Rights

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Limits of Enlightenment and the Law - On the Legality of Ritual Male Circumcision in Europe today

Limits of Enlightenment and the Law - On the Legality of Ritual Male Circumcision in Europe today

Why has the United States of America not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child? The veto fulcrum as a new health policy analysis framework

Human Rights and Beyond: Some Conceptual Differences between Islamic and Western Perspectives of Human Rights

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