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What’s Wrong With Children’s Rights By Martin Guggenheim. xiii + 306 pages. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-674-01721-8 £18.95

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2006

Michael Freeman
Michael Freeman
Affiliation:
University College London
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I will start this review with a lengthy statement, setting out what I believe is the importance of a rights agenda. The language of rights can make visible what has too long been suppressed. It can lead to new stories being heard in public. As Carrie Menkel-Meadow (1987, p. 52) has put it: ‘Each time we let in a new excluded group, each time we listen to a new way of knowing, we learn more about the limits of our current way of seeing.’

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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 89 - 98
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© (2006) Cambridge University Press

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