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Children's Rights in Ghana
Reality or Rhetoric?
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2011
Summary
This is the first book that examines Ghana's compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Ghana being the first country to ratify the Convention, it thus fills an important gap in the literature on Ghana. The book throws a searchlight on a wide range of rights issues including children's identity, violence against children and women, child exploitation and children in conflict with the law plus a host of other CRC related issues and further identifies and explains the main obstacles in the way of realizing children's rights in Ghana. A major strength of this book is that the contributors, Ghanaians and non-Ghanaians alike have vast experience in empirical research in Ghana and most importantly, come from diverse academic disciplines. Researchers, instructors, and students of Social Work, Sociology, Criminology Human Rights, Education and Law, are examples of a few academic disciplines that would find this book a welcome relief in their search for relevant and current data on children's issues in Ghana. It should also be of great interest to policy makers, human rights activists, Children's NGOs and international development partners interested in children's issues.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4800-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6910-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
295
Product type
Edited Book
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Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Introduction: Confronting the Challenges:Optimizing Child Rights in Ghana No access
2 Defining Childhood: A Historical Development Perspective No access
3 Controversies in Paternity: Who Is a Child's Father under Ghanaian Law? No access
4 Bridging the Child Rights Gap in a Refugee Context:Survival Strategies and Impact on Inter-generational Relations No access
5 Corporal Punishment in Ghana No access
6 Child Labor in Ghana: Global Concern and Local Reality No access
7 Children's Rights, Mobility, and Transport in Ghana:Access to Education and Health Services No access
8 Children's Rights, Controversial Traditional Practices, and the Trokosi System: A Critical Socio-legal Perspective No access
9 Assessing the Progress of the 1998 Children's Act of Ghana:Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges of the First Ten Years No access
10 Situating CRC Implementation Processes in the Local Contextsof Correctional Institutions for Children in Conflict with the Law in Ghana No access
11 Ghana's Education System: Where Rhetoric Meets Reform No access
12 Conclusion: The Future of Children's Rights in Ghana No access
A: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 No access
