Re: Child Rights Research

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A recent issue of the journal Law & Policy is devoted to articles on the 
UN Convention on the rights of Children.  It may not be right on for
your inquiry, but covers a lot of territory.  Murray Levine

On Tue, 10 Jun
1997, Edward Lentz wrote:

> 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
> 

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