A Comparative Analysis of Children’s Rights: Introducing the Children’s Rights Index Brian Gran Case Western Reserve University.

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A Comparative Analysis of Children’s Rights: Introducing the Children’s Rights Index Brian Gran Case Western Reserve University

What good are rights? Tools Symbols Outcomes Rights

Criticisms of Rights Differences Enforcement Relevance “Rights Talk”

Criticisms of Children’s Rights Caretaker and enforcement Private sector

Relevance of children’s rights Useful in public and private sectors Change cultural attitudes

Children’s Rights What rights do children possess?

Citizenship and Human Rights Civil Political Social + Economic Human rights

Sources of children’s rights 1924: Declaration of the Rights of the Child (Declaration of Geneva) 1959: Declaration of the Rights of the Child 1989: Convention on the Rights of the Child

U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child countries Civil, political, social, and economic rights

Civil Article 14: Freedom to practice religion Article 37: Freedom from imprisonment with adults

Political Article 15: Assembly ? : Suffrage

Social Article 24: Right to education Article 24: Right to health care

Economic Article 32: Freedom from hazardous work Article 32: Freedom from economic exploitation

Children’s Rights Index (CRI) Measures an individual child’s formal rights (to 2 of each) Civil Political Social Economic

Children’s Rights Index (CRI) 4 levels (1) no right; (2) significant, formal limit; (3) minor, informal limit; and (4) right exists. Possible range: 8 to 32

CRI Reliability Inter-item:.714 Inter-observer:.65 + Validity Skewness:.013 Kurtosis: -.56

CRI 22.22: Average 13: Somalia, Swaziland 15: Bhutan 30: Andorra, Canada, Finland, Netherlands 31: St. Kitts and Nevis

Descriptive information

Explaining CRI Levels World polity factors: Presence of Intl Human Rights Orgs + Economic Openness Country factors: Country wealth + Democracy + % Women in Parliament

Independent variables International human rights organizations: natural log Economic openness: square root of economic openness Country wealth: square root of GDPPC Democracy: Vanhanen Women in Parliament: % in Parliament

Results

Potential Uses of CRI Research on internationalization of law Globalization of values Rights and well being Employment of rights to produce social change

Moving forward Replication of CRI Explanations of differences in children’s rights Impacts of children’s rights

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