Order Description
select one topic from the following?
1 Why is the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child seen as a landmark treaty?

2 Examine the key limitations to effective implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and ‘children’s rights’ more generally.

3 How does culture shape the way childhood is understood and how children are treated? And what are the implications for concepts such as ‘children’s rights’ and ‘child protection’?

4 ‘Children’s views show a more nuanced assessment or complicated picture of their situations which challenge simplistic dichotomies about good vs. bad’ (Montgomery, 2001). Discuss

5 ‘To what extent do the lived experiences of certain groups of children challenge the children’s rights discourse embedded in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child?’