How children’s rights developed -- Early concepts of children’s rights -- Conceptions of children’s rights -- Creating international rights for children -- Current issues in children’s rights. Child health and welfare -- Education Children and the law -- Children and violence -- Child refugees -- Children and the family -- Children and sexual exploitation -- Child labor -- Implications for children’s rights in the United States. Status of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the United States -- Creation of a national ombudsperson for children -- Enactment of recommendations made by the National Commission for Children -- Enforcement of existing laws and regulations through enhanced international, federal, state, and local cooperation -- Summary -- Chronology -- Biographical sketches. Grace Abbott -- Melba Patillo Beals -- T. Berry Brazelton -- Nigel Cantwell -- Robert Coles -- Committee on the Rights of the Child -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Malfrid Grude Flekkoy -- James P. Grant -- Thomas Hammarberg -- Bruce Harris -- Asma Jahangir -- Eglantyne Jebb -- Ellen Key -- Janusz Korczak -- Iqbal Masih -- John F. O’Toole -- Nelia Sancho Liao -- Marta Santos Pais -- International instruments, declarations, guidelines, and charters. ILO convention fixing the minimum age for admission of children to industrial employment (1919) -- ILO convention concerning the night work of young persons employed in industry (1919) --

International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and children (1922) -- Declaration of Geneva (1924) -- Geneva convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war (12 august 1949) -- Protocol I of 8 June 1977 -- Protocol II of 8 June 1977 -- The Children’s Charter of Japan (1951) -- Declaration of the rights of the child (1959) -- ILO convention concerning minimum age for admission to employment (1973) -- Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) -- Charter on the rights and welfare of the African child (1990) -- World Summit For Children: year 2000 goals (1990) -- The Declaration of Lima and the Narino Accord -- Manifesto for Children of the Children’s Legal Centre, London (1992) -- U.S. policy recommendations and supreme court rulings -- Policy recommendations -- The children’s charter (1930) -- A bill of rights for the handicapped child (1930) -- Declaration of opportunities for children (1942) -- Children’s bill of rights of the White House conference on children and youth (1970) -- Rights of youth from the White House conference on youth (1971) -- Recommendations of the National Commission on Children (1991) -- Twelve key facts about black children and families (1993) -- Supreme Court rulings. Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. (1954) -- In Re Gault (1967) -- Levy v. Louisiana (1968) -- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District (1969) -- Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) -- Plyler v. Doe (1982) -- New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985) -- Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser (1986) -- Hazelwood School District et al. v. Cathy Kuhlmeier et al. (1988) -- Thompson v. Oklahoma (1988) -- Stanford v. Kentucky (1989) -- Statistics. Poverty -- Health -- Violence -- Education -- Children in the labor force -- Organizations, associations, and agencies -- Print resources. Books -- Books for children -- Books for young adults -- Other print resources -- Educational materials -- Journals and periodicals -- Magazines and journals for young adults -- Nonprint resources. Databases and computer networks -- CD-ROMs and computer software -- Audiotapes, films, videocassettes, and filmstrips -- Poster sets -- Glossary.