Complementary Areas That Contribute to Notions of Children’s Citizenship

Abstract

Areas examined in previous chapters have, because of the large amount of time and material they cover, omitted a number of issues that are also important. This chapter describes a few of these omissions. As examples of the kind of areas that help to expand insights to other charters for children, the African Children’s Charter and European Convention on the Exercise of Children’s Rights are looked at as typical of a growing number of international efforts to change legal and administrative ways of seeing them. The influence of religion is then included since this is a very important component of any international examination and often used to political ends to determine the status of children. The USA and their position on children’s rights as one of the two remaining nation states who have not ratified the CRC but is probably the most influential political force globally is looked at in terms of what influence that might bring to bear on the position of children. The chapter draws to a close taking a final look at the influence of the CRC and children’s own diverse views on their citizenship.