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Decolonising children’s rights: of vernacularisation and interdisciplinarity

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Law is (hu)man-made, and bears the imprint of the time and place at which it comes into being. International human rights law is no different. It arose in the aftermath of the Second World War and the holocaust, at a time that the implicit image of a human being was a white, male adult.

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    Wouter Vandenhole

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Vandenhole, W. (2020). Decolonising children’s rights: of vernacularisation and interdisciplinarity. In: Budde, R., Markowska-Manista, U. (eds) Childhood and Children’s Rights between Research and Activism . Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29180-8_12

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