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In this collection we are remembering Judith Ennew who passed away too early and unexpectedly in October 2013. Judith was a wonderful person, who combined in an impressive manner, the practical engagement for children and their rights with a rigorous ethos as a researcher of children’s lives. As an activist and researcher, she worked in various parts of the world, first in Jamaica, then in Latin America, in Africa and in South East Asia as well as in several European countries. She particularly had in mind those children who suffer from social inequality, poverty, war, violence, exploitation, discrimination and political persecution. She identified these children as victims of an unjust world, but never saw them as victims only. Children, Judith once noted in a guide to the work with street and working children, ‘…are not ‘objects of concern’, but people. They are vulnerable but not incapable. They need respect, not pity. […] Although they already have much knowledge and many skills, they still need more information and further social skills…’ (1994:40).
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Liebel, M., Invernizzi, A. (2017). Introduction. In: Invernizzi, A., Liebel, M., Milne, B., Budde, R. (eds) ‘Children Out of Place’ and Human Rights . Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33251-2_1
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