Turning Global Rights into Local Realities: Realizing Children’s Rights in Ghana’s Pluralistic Society

This book explores how dominant children's rights principles interact with the lived realities of children's lives in Ghana, the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence and the first to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It challenges one-dimensional portrayals of childhoods in the Global South and highlights the need for more holistic approaches to the study of children's lives and childrens rights realization in Southern contexts.

Format: Hardback
Length: 234 pages
Publication date: 15 July 2024
Publisher: Bristol University Press

Ghana, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from European colonial rule and the first in the world to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, is the focus of this book. It explores how dominant children's rights principles interact with the lived realities of a range of children's lives. The author considers the changeability and inconsistencies of childhoods within this context and the factors that underpin these varied intersections, including cultural norms, the British colonial legacy, the influence of Christianity, urbanization, and social, economic, and political transformations. Challenging one-dimensional portrayals of childhoods in the Global South, the author highlights the need for more holistic approaches to the study of children's lives and childrens rights realization in Southern contexts.

Weight: 518g
Dimension: 160 x 241 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529227628