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Author Carpenter, R. Charli, author.

Title Forgetting children born of war : setting the human rights agenda in Bosnia and beyond / R. Charli Carpenter
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 273 pages)
Contents Theorizing child rights in international relations -- "Particularly vulnerable" : children born of sexual violence in conflict and preconflict zones -- "Different things become sexy issues" : the politics of issue concentration in transnational space -- "A fresh crop of human misery" : representations of war babies in and around Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1991-2005 -- "Protecting children in war, " forgetting children of war : humanitarian triage during the war in ex-Yugoslavia -- "Forced to bear children of the enemy" : surfacing gender and submerging child rights in international law -- "These children (who are part of the genocide), they have no problems" : thinking about children born of war and rights in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina -- "A very complicated issue" : agenda setting and agenda vetting in transnational advocacy networks -- The social construction of children's human rights
Summary Focusing specifically on the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina, R. Charli Carpenter questions the framing of atrocity by human rights organizations and the limitations these narratives impose on their response. She finds that human rights groups set their agendas according to certain grievances--the claims of female rape victims or the complaints of aggrieved minorities, for example--and that these concerns can overshadow the needs of others. Incorporating her research into a host of other conflict zones, Carpenter shows that the social construction of rights claims is contingent upon the social construction of wrongs. According to Carpenter, this pathology prevents the full protection of children born of war --Book Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index
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Subject Children and war -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Children's rights -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Children and war
Children's rights
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231522304
0231522304
9781282872363
1282872362
9786612872365
6612872365