[child-rights] Special Edition on Children's Health and Rights

News from the Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud Center:
Health and Human Rights, vol. 5, no. 2: Childrens Health and Childrens
Rights

We wish to draw your attention to this latest edition of Health and
Human Rights, which focuses on childrens health and
childrens rights.

The United Nations General Assemblys Special Session on Children, which
will be held on May 8 through 10, 2002, was the
catalyst for this issue. A number of important events in the 1990s,
beginning with the 1990 World Summit for Children, have
focused on integrating human rights approaches into childrens health
policy and programming. This special issue attempts to
provide evidence of where human rights have had a positive impact on
policy and programs that improve child health and offers
suggestions about where additional efforts are needed.

As the following table of contents indicates, this special issue
provides select examples from India, Peru, South Africa, the
United States and details the work of international organizations in a
variety of places.

Editorial
A World Fit for Children: Are the Worlds Leaders Being Passed on the
Fast Lane? by Sofia Gruskin
Articles
Law, Violence, and the Girl Child by Kirti Singh and Diviya Kapur
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Latin America by Maria
Raguz
The Relevance of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the
Child for United States Domestic Policy: Welfare
Reform and Children in Immigrant Families by Jennifer Kasper and Paul
Wise
Economic Exploitation and the Health of Children: Toward a
Rights-Oriented Public Health Approach by David Parker and
Sarah Bachman
The Right to Health of Children and the World Bank by Curtis Francis
Doebbler
Commentaries
A Human Rights Approach to Public Health: WHO Capacity Building in the
Area of Childrens Rights by Tomris Turmen,
Hans Troedsson, and Marcus Stahlhofer
Children and Their Right to Enjoy Health: A Brief Report on the
Monitoring Activities of the Committee on the Rights of the
Child by Jaap E. Doek
Profile
Soul Buddyz: A Childrens Rights Mass Media Campaign in South Africa by
Susan Goldstein, Aadielah Anderson, Shereen
Usdin, and Garth Japhet
Annex
The Convention on the Rights of the Child

Health and Human Rights is published biannually by the Frangois-Xavier
Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights of
the Harvard School of Public Health. The journal examines the effects of
human rights violations on health, the impact health
policies have on human rights, and the relationship between health and
human rights.

We believe that this special edition of Health and Human Rights (vol. 5,
no. 2) will provide your organization with useful and
thought-provoking information.
For subscription requests and orders for one or more copies of this or
any other issue, open and print the attached journal
order form and send or fax it to Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for
Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of
Public Health, 651 Huntington Avenue 7th floor, Boston, MA 02115-6017
USA. Fax: +1-617-432-4310.