Children's rights in Ghana : reality or rhetoric? / edited by Robert Kwame Ame, DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga, and Nana Araba Apt.
2011
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Title
Children's rights in Ghana : reality or rhetoric? / edited by Robert Kwame Ame, DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga, and Nana Araba Apt.
Published
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Call Number
HQ789 .C4643 2011
ISBN
9780739148006 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739148001 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739148001 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
xiv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)664667215
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the African Law Center Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the African Law Center Fund
Table of Contents
Figures
vii
Tables
ix
Foreword
xi
Acknowledgments / Georgina T. Wood
xiii
Part I: Childhood and Identity / Georgina T. Wood
1
1.
Introduction: Confronting the Challenges: Optimizing Child Rights in Ghana / Georgina T. Wood
3
2.
Defining Childhood: A Historical Development Perspective / Nana Araba Apt, Robert Kwame Arne, DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga
15
3.
Controversies in Paternity: Who Is a Child's Father under Ghanaian Law? / DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga
37
4.
Bridging the Child Rights Gap in a Refugee Context: Survival Strategies and Impact on Inter-generational Relations / Beatrice Akua Duncan
59
Part II: Children in Dangerous Circumstances: Exploitation and Abuse / Kate Hampshire George Oppong Ampong, Michael Kwodwo Adjaloo, Peter Ohene Kyei, Kate Kilpatrick Gina Porter
75
5.
Corporal Punishment in Ghana / Gina Porter George Oppong Ampong, Michael Kwodwo Adjaloo, Peter Ohene Kyei, Kate Kilpatrick Kate Hampshire
77
6.
Child Labor in Ghana: Global Concern and Local Reality / Sylvester Kyei-Gyamfi
99
7.
Children's Rights, Mobility, and Transport in Ghana: Access to Education and Health Services / George Clerk
113
Part III: Policies, Laws, and Programs / Kathrin Blaufuss Albert Abane Gina Porter Frank Owusu Acheampong
129
8.
Children's Rights, Controversial Traditional Practices, and the Trokosi System: A Critical Socio-legal Perspective / Kathrin Blaufuss Frank Owusu Acheampong, Albert Abane Gina Porter
131
9.
Assessing the Progress of the 1998 Children's Act of Ghana: Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges of the First Ten Years / Robert Kwame Ame
151
10.
Situating CRC Implementation Processes in the Local Contexts of Correctional Institutions for Children in Conflict with the Law in Ghana / Afua Twum-Danso
169
11.
Ghana's Education System: Where Rhetoric Meets Reform / Lilian Ayete-Nyampong
193
12.
Conclusion: The Future of Children's Rights in Ghana / Leah McMillan
215
Appendices / DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga, Nana Araba Apt, Robert Kwame Ame
223
A.
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 / Nana Araba Apt, DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga, Robert Kwame Ame
225
B.
The Children's Act, 1998 (Act 560) / Nana Araba Apt, DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga, Robert Kwame Ame
245
Index / Robert Kwame Ame, Nana Araba Apt, DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga
277
About the Contributors / DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga, Nana Araba Apt, Robert Kwame Ame
291