Children's Rights

This course explores children as the subjects of government action and agents in their own right. Children are both specifically vulnerable and highly symbolic figures, requiring extra protection and lending themselves to specific kinds of policy and advocacy. We will explore the meanings of children’s rights in local and international contexts, and the challenges of promoting and protecting them, whether they pertain to health, education or care. Students will become familiar with the fundamental international conventions and organizations dedicated to children’s rights, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and UNICEF. All sections of the class will explore the foundations of children’s rights through examination of the major principles enshrined in the CRC, different aspects of child rights (health, food, housing, education, environment etc) and their violation (child soldiers; unlawful detention, deportation and transfer, identity theft, etc), but may do so in different ways, and with different emphasis.

This network course includes an online section that is open to enrollment to OSUN students across the network. Please visit the OSUN Online Courses for further information.

This course counts toward the Human Rights certificate.

American University of Central Asia offers this course under the name "Child Rights Protection".
Al-Quds Bard College offers this course under the name "Women Children and Minority Rights".