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Part 1 Theory: rights, ideology and children, M. Freeman; children'srights - the theoretical underpinning of the "best interests of the child",S. Wolfson; the limits of children's rights, M. Freeman; the rights ofchildren are universal - the perspective of the UN Convention on the Rightsof the Child, A. Lopatka; the relevance of theories of natural law and legalpositivism, C.P. Cohen; the UN Convention and the network of internationalhuman rights protection by the UN, H.-J. Heintze; changes in child images -reflections in national and international rules and jurisdiction in Europe,E. Verhellen; cultural and regional pluralism in the drafting of theConvention on the rights of the child, D. Johnson; rights of children in achanging world, C. de Graef; the concept of the "best interest" in terms ofthe Convention on the Rights of the Child, J. Wolf; attitudes to children -their consequences for work for children, M.G. Flekkoy; theory and practice,G. James; the role of children in the making of decisions which affect them,E. Sutherland; what children's rights mean to children - children's ownviews, G. Melton and S. Limber; how do children perceive their rights? - anoutline for research and professional discussion, Z. Eisikovitz and E.Buchbinder. Part 2 Application: the ideology of liberal individualism,welfare rights and the right to education, C. Wringe; the child's right tohealth, P. Graham; reconstructing child abuse - Western definition andnon-Western experience, A. McGillivray; juvenile justice policy - mapping thecriteria, L. Sebba; the meaning of human rights for children, M. de Larger;child protection in Germany, L. Salgo; the development of equitable remediesfor children with disabilities, S. Herr; cocaine's smallest victims -advocacy on behalf of drug-exposed infants, J. Fink; little foreign bodies -international dimensions of child prostitution, G. kent; the protection ofchildren in armed conflict, F. Krill; towards a more integrated base for thechildren's rights movement - objectives and outcome of the firstinternational interdisciplinary study-group on children's rights, P. Veerman.