Children's Rights in Ghana (eBook)

Reality or Rhetoric?

DeBrenna LaFa Agbenyiga, Robert Kwame Ame, Nana Araba Apt (Herausgeber)

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2011
310 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-6910-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines Ghana's implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ghana's commitment to the Convention which she was the first country to ratify is explored in a series of studies and analyses on child rights promulgations and programs. The book further discusses the challenges the country faces in her efforts of protecting children's rights while providing an insight into future directions for continued support of children's rights.

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This is the first book that examines Ghanas compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Ghana being the first country to ratify the Convention, it thus fills an important gap in the literature on Ghana. The book throws a searchlight on a wide range of rights issues including childrens identity, violence against children and women, child exploitation and children in conflict with the law plus a host of other CRC related issues and further identifies and explains the main obstacles in the way of realizing childrens rights in Ghana. A major strength of this book is that the contributors, Ghanaians and non-Ghanaians alike have vast experience in empirical research in Ghana and most importantly, come from diverse academic disciplines. Researchers, instructors, and students of Social Work, Sociology, Criminology Human Rights, Education and Law, are examples of a few academic disciplines that would find this book a welcome relief in their search for relevant and current data on childrens issues in Ghana. It should also be of great interest to policy makers, human rights activists, Childrens NGOs and international development partners interested in childrens issues.

Autor

Robert Kwame Ame is assistant professor of human rights and criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University.DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work and assistant dean for equity, diverity, and inclusive academic affairs in the College of Social Science at Michigan State University.Nana Araba Apt is professor of sociology and dean of academic affairs at Ashesi University College in Accra, Ghana.

Inhalt

ForewordPart I. Childhood and IdentityChapter 1. Introduction: Confronting the Challenges: Optimizing Child Rights in GhanaChapter 2. Defining Childhood: A Historical Development PerspectiveChapter 3. Controversies in Paternity: Who Is a Child's Father under Ghanaian Law?Chapter 4. Bridging the Child Rights Gap in a Refugee Context: Survival Strategies and Impact on Inter-generational RelationsPart II. Chidren in Dangerous Circumstances: Exploitation and AbuseChapter 5. Corporal Punishment in GhanaChapter 6. Child Labor in Ghana: Global Concern and Local RealityChapter 7. Children's Rights, Mobility, and Transport in Ghana: Access to Education and Health ServicesPart III. Policies, Laws, and ProgramsChapter 8. Children's Rights, Controversial Traditional Practices, and the Trokosi System: A Critical Socio-legal PerspectiveChapter 9. Assessing the Progress of the 1998 Children's Act of Ghana:Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges of the FirstTen YearsChapter 10. Situating CRC Implementation Processes in the Local Contextsof Correctional Institutions for Children in Conflict with the Law in GhanaChapter 11. Ghana's Education System: Where Rhetoric Meets ReformChapter 12. Conclusion: The Future of Children's Rights in Ghana

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.2.2011
• Co-Autor: Albert Abane, Kate Kilpatrick, Peter Ohene Kyei, Sylvester Kyei-Gyamfi, Leah McMillan, Gina Porter, Afua Twum-Danso, Georgina T. Wood, Frank Owusu Acheampong, Michael Kwodwo Adjaloo, George Oppong Ampong, Lilian Ayete-Nyampong, Kathrin Blaufuss, George Clerk, Beatrice Akua Duncan, Kate Hampshire
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Africana Studies • African politics • African Studies • education, families, and health • International Politics • Political Science • Society and Politics • Sociology
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-6910-6 / 0739169106
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-6910-0 / 9780739169100