Empowering Children: Children's Rights Education as a Pathway to Citizenship

by Katherine Covell and R. Brian Howe

Book Overview

Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that children in all countries have fundamental rights, including rights to education. To date, 192 states are signatories to or have in some form ratified the accord. Children are still imperilled in many countries, however, and are often not made aware of their guaranteed rights. In Empowering Children , R. Brian Howe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802038573
• ISBN13: 9780802038579
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"