The United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child: A Feminist Landmark

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,1 adopted by the General Assembly on November 20, 1989, is a ground-breaking human rights treaty for many reasons. It had the largest number of signatories on the day that it was opened for signature.2 It went into force more quickly than any other human rights treaty;3 it reached near-universal ratification by mid-1996;4 and it protects the entire range of human rights: civilpolitical, economic-social-cultural, and humanitarian.5 In addition, the Convention\u27s monitoring mechanism gives unique powers to its monitoring body, the Committee on the Rights of the Child.6 Unfortunately, these achievements have tended to overshadow one of the Convention\u27s most remarkable characteristics: its protection of the girl child. The purpose of this article is to describe, examine, analyze, and evaluate the Convention on the Rights of the Child from the standpoint of its relationship to other international human-rights treaties and its impact on the global situation and status of girls and young women. The discussion will include a survey of the international human rights principle of non-discrimination, and an examination of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and its relevance to the girl child. The article will further provide an overview of the current world situation of girls; an analysis of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its implementation, including nontreaty based efforts to eliminate prejudice against girls; and an exploration of existing tensions between women\u27s rights and children\u27s rights. It is the author\u27s position that the Convention on the Rights of the Child should be recognized as an important feminist landmark

An Introduction To The Developing Jurisprudence Of The Rights Of The Child

The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on November 20, 1989.\u27 At the time of the International Law Association\u27s 1996 International Law Weekend, 187 countries had ratified the Convention

Making a world of difference recruitment of undergraduate students at USU

Journal ArticleThis paper describes two creative methods that are used to recruit undergraduate students at Utah State University. The fmt is "Engineering State", a four day hands-on immersement in a wide array of engineering disciplines, and the second is a slide show called "Making a World of Difference - Women in Engineering" that was created by a woman engineering student to provide an uplifting, upbeat look at the difference a woman can make in the world if she becomes an engineer, and to encourage young women to take a second look at the opportunities engineering presents for them. The Engineering State program has been in place since 1992 and has had clear, measurable benefits in the recruitment of students to USU engineering programs. One of the goals of Engineering State is to attract women and minorities to consider an engineering career. The engineering students who have seen the preliminary portions of the new slide show have excited comments, smiles on their faces, and a renewed positive outlook. It is hoped that this exposure will provide much-needed role models, success stones, and a new look at engineering as the people-oriented profession that it can be. This slide show is available free to interested faculty, and is downloadable in Power Point format from the web

CEAC Update, Vol. 1, Iss. 2

CEAC Update, newsletter of the Collaborative for Evaluation and Assessment Capacity, volume 1, issue 2

CEAC Update, Vol. 1, Iss. 3

CEAC Update, newsletter of the Collaborative for Evaluation and Assessment Capacity, vol. 1, iss. 3