Child Rights Research

[ealent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Edward Lentz)]

I am embarking on research which will examine whether or not the provisions
addressing child abuse in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, &
the child welfare legislation in British Columbia which is supposed to
reflect those provisions, bear any relation to the perceptions of children &
youth as to what their rights are or should be.

I would appreciate any pointers to age-sensitive &/or culture-neutral or
culture-sensitive instruments for surveying &/or interviewing children &
youth perceptions of rights & responsibilities.  I would especially be
interested in those which have been designed with the following population
segments in mind: recent immigrants, visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples,
children-in-care.

Also, if anyone could point me to definitive works in the literature on
interviewing/surveying child & youth subjects I would greatly appreciate it.

B'Shalom!

Edward Adrian Lentz, M.P.A. (cand.)
School of Public Administration
University of Victoria (BC)

"In Time's Ocean falling drown'd/In Aged Ignorance profound/
Holy & cold, I clip'd the Wings/Of all Sublunary Things."
                       Wm. Blake, "Aged Ignorance" fr. Gates of Paradise