Children are affected by poverty more often than adults, and growing up in poverty has severe and long-lasting negative consequences for a child’s well-being. How-ever, children are also in a very weak position, both to escape poverty on their own and to publicly and politically enforce their claims to a better life. Accordingly, children living in poverty are victims of two intersecting forms of powerlessness: they are children and they are poor. In this article, we analyze this particular type of powerlessness from a children’s rights perspective and argue that, in order to effectively restore justice to children in pov-erty, the State has to implement a comprehensive children’s rights regime. We argue that the State is obliged to conside...
According to recent federal data from 2013, the number of children who experience homelessness in th...
There are few attempts to link human rights discourses and child poverty debates, though the field i...
In this Article, I argue that poor parents who are willing, but economically unable, to provide prop...
Children are affected by poverty more often than adults, and growing up in poverty has severe and lo...
Justice for children and during childhood and the particular political, social and moral s...
This article strives to demonstrate how the Capability Approach (CA) allows us to grasp issues of ju...
This paper, written for a symposium on The Mind of a Child, examines two different aspects of the ac...
Child poverty is one of the biggest challenges of today, harming millions of children. In this book,...
Published version of an article published in the journal: Child Indicators Research. Also available ...
Children's participation and addressing global poverty are two dominant narratives within global dev...
Monitoring, protecting and promoting 'well-being' are central to realisation of children's rights. Y...
As a matter of justice children are entitled to many different things. In this paper we will argue t...
In this Article, I propose an account that redresses the powerlessness of children. Any such account...
Children are particularly vulnerable to structured inequalities in society. Building on the work of ...
Abstract: Is the issue of children living in poverty recognized by and incorporated into anti-povert...
According to recent federal data from 2013, the number of children who experience homelessness in th...
There are few attempts to link human rights discourses and child poverty debates, though the field i...
In this Article, I argue that poor parents who are willing, but economically unable, to provide prop...
Children are affected by poverty more often than adults, and growing up in poverty has severe and lo...
Justice for children and during childhood and the particular political, social and moral s...
This article strives to demonstrate how the Capability Approach (CA) allows us to grasp issues of ju...
This paper, written for a symposium on The Mind of a Child, examines two different aspects of the ac...
Child poverty is one of the biggest challenges of today, harming millions of children. In this book,...
Published version of an article published in the journal: Child Indicators Research. Also available ...
Children's participation and addressing global poverty are two dominant narratives within global dev...
Monitoring, protecting and promoting 'well-being' are central to realisation of children's rights. Y...
As a matter of justice children are entitled to many different things. In this paper we will argue t...
In this Article, I propose an account that redresses the powerlessness of children. Any such account...
Children are particularly vulnerable to structured inequalities in society. Building on the work of ...
Abstract: Is the issue of children living in poverty recognized by and incorporated into anti-povert...
According to recent federal data from 2013, the number of children who experience homelessness in th...
There are few attempts to link human rights discourses and child poverty debates, though the field i...
In this Article, I argue that poor parents who are willing, but economically unable, to provide prop...