- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Images toward the Emancipation of Children in Modern Western Culture
- The Evolution of the Children’s Rights Movement
- Taking Children’s Human Rights Seriously
- The Interrelated and Interdependent Nature of Children’s Rights
- A Child-Centered Approach to Children’s Rights Law Living Rights and Translations
- A Socioecological Model of Children’s Rights
- Critical Race Theory and Children’s Rights
- Feminist Legal Theory and Children’s Rights
- Intersectionality and Children’s Rights
- The Best Interests of the Child
- Citizenship and Rights of Children
- The Child’s Right to Family
- Child Participation
- Juvenile Justice
- Placing Children’s Freedom from Violence at the Heart of the Policy Agenda
- Continuing Dilemmas of International Adoption
- Economic and Labor Rights of Children
- The Health Rights of Children
- Revisiting the Three ‘R’s in Order to Realize Children’s Educational Rights Relationships, Resources, and Redress
- Poverty and Children’s Rights
- Situating the Rights versus Culture Binary within the Context of Colonial History in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Climate Change and Children’s Rights
- Taking Part, Joining in, and Being Heard?: Ethnographic Explorations of Children’s Participation
- National Human Rights Institutions for Children
- Examining the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child through the Lens of Caste- and Descent-Based Discrimination
- Embracing Our LGBTQ Youth: A Child Rights Paradigm
- Indigenous Children
- Children with Disabilities: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges Ahead
- Independent Children
- Trafficked Children
- Children in Armed Conflict
- Working Toward Recognition of the Rights of Migrant and Refugee Children
- Human Rights Education: Education about Children’s Rights
- Children’s Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter reviews and critiques the work of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child through the lens of caste- and descent-based discrimination. The chapter explores both the promise and the limitations of the work of the Committee in addressing discrimination that is, in many cases, fundamentally woven into the cultural and the religious practices of a society. In particular, it explores the promise and limitations of the Committee’s work in India, Nepal, and Mauritania to combat caste- and descent-based discrimination, inter alia, through its Concluding Observations. The chapter calls attention to the rights of children who are considered ‘untouchables’ or ‘outcastes.’ The chapter shows the challenges the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee) confronts in addressing such discrimination. The chapter concludes by exploring ways the CRC Committee further the potential of the CRC to be an instrument of change.
Keywords: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, children’s rights, caste discrimination, children of Dalits untouchables, descent-based discrimination, Article 2 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, religion
Dr. Philip Veerman, CPsychol., lives in the Hague (the Netherlands) where he works as a health-psychologist for children and adolescents.
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- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Images toward the Emancipation of Children in Modern Western Culture
- The Evolution of the Children’s Rights Movement
- Taking Children’s Human Rights Seriously
- The Interrelated and Interdependent Nature of Children’s Rights
- A Child-Centered Approach to Children’s Rights Law Living Rights and Translations
- A Socioecological Model of Children’s Rights
- Critical Race Theory and Children’s Rights
- Feminist Legal Theory and Children’s Rights
- Intersectionality and Children’s Rights
- The Best Interests of the Child
- Citizenship and Rights of Children
- The Child’s Right to Family
- Child Participation
- Juvenile Justice
- Placing Children’s Freedom from Violence at the Heart of the Policy Agenda
- Continuing Dilemmas of International Adoption
- Economic and Labor Rights of Children
- The Health Rights of Children
- Revisiting the Three ‘R’s in Order to Realize Children’s Educational Rights Relationships, Resources, and Redress
- Poverty and Children’s Rights
- Situating the Rights versus Culture Binary within the Context of Colonial History in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Climate Change and Children’s Rights
- Taking Part, Joining in, and Being Heard?: Ethnographic Explorations of Children’s Participation
- National Human Rights Institutions for Children
- Examining the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child through the Lens of Caste- and Descent-Based Discrimination
- Embracing Our LGBTQ Youth: A Child Rights Paradigm
- Indigenous Children
- Children with Disabilities: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges Ahead
- Independent Children
- Trafficked Children
- Children in Armed Conflict
- Working Toward Recognition of the Rights of Migrant and Refugee Children
- Human Rights Education: Education about Children’s Rights
- Children’s Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities
- Index
