Child Rights & Remedies Fall 2012

1. Child Rights & RemediesFall 2012 Class 23

2. Review of Class # 22 • Children and First Amendment Rights

3. The Status of Children Internationally • The U.S. Example: Private Responsibility • The U.S. Example: Comparative Bilateral Aid

4. The “Flat World” and Children • Trade and Product Endangerment • Interdependence and Debt • Competition, Markets and Patents • Media Competition and Control • Democratic Institutions and Child Opportunity to Govern

5. Legacy Issues • International Child-related Cultural Issues and U.S. Leadership • Parental commitment • Pornography and violence • Gambling vs. the Ethic of Production • Marketing and Commercial Crime • Religious Intolerance and “tribalism”

6. Legacy and the Environment • Global Warming • Preservation of the Earth’s Assets • International and Bilateral Environmental Treaties

7. Recognition of child rights timeline Declaration of Human Rights International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights The International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

8. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child • Addenda to the Convention • International Distribution of Pornography

9. The Hague Convention on Abduction • Abbott v. Abbott U.S. (2010)