This study looks at the protection and promotion of children s rights through a socio legal examination of the provisions of the world s pre eminent children s rights treaty the Convention on the Rights of the Child The book focuses on this singular question: Does the Convention provide a culturally appropriate framework for the protection and promotion of children s rights across different cultures? In examining this question the book argues that the effective protection of the rights of children will not be achieved unless the substantive protections are perceived as culturally legitimate by local communities and unless the implementation procedures are aimed at enhancing such legitimacy as opposed to merely ensuring adherence to form The book benefits from a methodology that fuses international law methods with grounded anthropological narratives It demonstrates that far from being abstract paper prescriptions children s rights frameworks are but a species of social and cultur
