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Nour, Osman El Hassan N. – International Review of Education, 2013
The notion of Child Friendly Cities (CFCs) was first developed during the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT II), held in Istanbul in 1996. The concept is based on four general principles of the United Nations "Convention on the rights of the child": (1) fair treatment of every child, regardless of ethnicity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Childrens Rights, Child Welfare
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Te One, Sarah; Blaikie, Rebecca; Egan-Bitran, Michelle; Henley, Zoey – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
Recent social policy discourses in Aotearoa New Zealand focus on vulnerable children's well-being and the detrimental, long-term and costly impacts of child poverty. The discourse pervading much of the policy labels children and young people as "vulnerable" or "at risk" or "in crisis", a view, which we argue, is both…
Descriptors: Well Being, Child Welfare, Poverty Programs, Naming