Why the Underutilization of Child Rights in Global Mobilization? The Cases of Female Genital Cutting Practices and User Fees for Education

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Studies in Law, Politics, and Society

ISSN: 1059-4337
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Title:	Why the Underutilization of Child Rights in Global Mobilization? The Cases of Female Genital Cutting Practices and User Fees for Education
Author(s):	Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Hollie Nyseth
Volume:	56 Editor(s): Austin Sarat ISBN: 978-1-78052-252-4 eISBN: 978-1-78052-253-1
Citation:	Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Hollie Nyseth (2011), Why the Underutilization of Child Rights in Global Mobilization? The Cases of Female Genital Cutting Practices and User Fees for Education, in Austin Sarat (ed.) Special Issue Human Rights: New Possibilities/New Problems (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Volume 56), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.91-119
DOI:	10.1108/S1059-4337(2011)0000056007 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	Support for child rights is widespread, and the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified treaty ever. Surprisingly, however, we find that child rights discourse is not integrated as a core element of mobilization around either the eradication of female genital cutting practices or the provision of free primary education. Analyzing history and the content of child rights claims related to these issues, we unpack this puzzle. In the process, we illuminate the constraints on mobilizing strategies in general and some difficulties inherent in using child rights discourse in particular.