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One of the most apparent effects of the separation of children’s rights from the larger body of human rights has been the very rapid growth of a unique language. It has taken some of that language from existing terminology in other domains including development, developmental psychology, education and gender studies. Children’s participation has particularly been headlined by using a very specific set of words. However, what it does has set them aside from adults so that what the CRC extends to them does not draw them into fuller membership of civil society, thus giving them additional citizens’ rights. Furthermore, in the wake of the CRC, other organisations have been set up, some of them complementary but others fairly obviously working only to their own agenda. Beyond the language and competition of territories within the children’s rights environment, there has been an attempt to globalise the notion of ‘the child’ irrespective of the many components that make each child an individual: race, class, gender, culture, economics, politics, nationality, belief, sexuality and perhaps war.
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Milne, B. (2015). There Is No Such Thing As Children’s Rights. In: Rights of the Child. Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18784-6_7
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