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1 - Children’s Rights Obligations and Business

from Part I - Children’s Rights, Businesses and Duties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2020

Gamze Erdem Türkelli
Gamze Erdem Türkelli
Affiliation:
Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
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Summary

This chapter sets out the importance of a children’s rights focused inquiry into the human rights obligation of business enterprises by drawing insights from various disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, sociology and medical sciences. It sets out childhood as a stage of rapid development, the disproportionate and different effects of harms during childhood and children’s rights as a remedy to children’s invisibility, lack of public voice and consultation. The characteristics of a children’s rights focus for businesses as human rights duty-bearers are sketched out and linked to the so-called general principles of children’s rights.

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rapid developmentevolving capacitiesparticipationempowermenttargetingmainstreamingchildren’s rightschildhoodgeneral principlesbest interests
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Children's Rights and Business
Governing Obligations and Responsibility
 , pp. 3 - 126
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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