| Tittel: | Combating Vulnerabilities – the CRC’s Role in Children’s Social Well-Being and Right to Health | | Ansvar: | Julia Köhler-Olsen | | Forfatter: | Köhler-Olsen, Julia  | | Materialtype: | Bokkapittel | | Utgitt: | Oslo : Universitetsforlaget, 2025 | | Omfang: | S. 71–89 | | ISBN/ISSN: | 9788215069517 | | Emneord: | Barn / Barnerett / Barnevern / Barns rettigheter / Helse / Vitenskapelig publikasjon | | Note: | Open access - Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) | | Innhold: | Abstract
Children are not vulnerable. Children are held in vulnerable situations due to societal structures and institutions keeping them from experiencing strength, social well-being and health. This chapter discusses whether state obligations according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Art. 24 on the right to health require policy work on societal structures and institutions read in light of CRC Art. 2 on the right to non-discrimination and the theory of substantive equality.
Keywords: right to health, substantive equality, dimensions of vulnerability, sårbarhet | | Del av verk: | Perspectives on children, rights, and vulnerability | | Forlagets omtale: |
This volume explores and challenges the concept of vulnerability in the way it is applied and discussed in relation to children from a northwestern European perspective. While the concept of vulnerability has been significantly explored in relation to childhood and children's rights, this volume adds a fresh lens by adding a predominantly legal perspective. The predominantly legal perspectives and the way many of the authors are taking their departure point from the work of Martha Fineman bring a new third dimension to the discussion of the concept of vulnerability. This interrogation of the concept of vulnerability is deployed in discussions that cover wide ranging issues relating to the environment, immigration, healthcare, education and climate change. Health is a focus of several chapters. While some of the chapters challenge the concept of vulnerability, others mainly work from more dominant interpretations of child vulnerability and some also bring in the perspective of the multidisciplinary field of childhood studies. The chapters represent a mixture of theoretical and empirical pieces. In the last chapter, some of the key threads running through the whole volume are brought together with some concluding reflections. The theoretical concepts and the questions raised by many of the chapters included in this volume have the potential to contribute to further thinking in this area.
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