Why are unaccompanied migrant children living on the streets and routinely threatened with deportation to their countries of origin? In this compelling essay, renowned human rights lawyer and scholar Jacqueline Bhabha explains why forced migration demands compassion, generosity and a more vigorous acknowledgement of our shared dependence on human mobility as a key element of global collaboration. Overview; Open Source Software; Help; History (1) Bhabha, Jacqueline; See All Pages; Find People; Find Everything; Login to edit your profile (add a photo, awards, links to other websites, etc.) 1 Jacqueline Bhabha, professeure de pratiquede la santé et des droits de la personne à la Harvard School of Public Health, Université de Harvard ; Guy Abel, professeur à l’école de sociologie et de science politique de l’Université de Shanghai. The family moved to Milan, Italy in 1961 when she was ten years old. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
She is the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. lecturer in law at Harvard Law School and teaches public policy at Harvard Kennedy School.. Jacqueline Bhabha's 26 research works with 73 citations and 1,255 reads, including: Supplementary Material 3 Chan School of Public Health. Part history, part in-depth legal and political analysis, this powerful book challenges the prevailing wisdom that widespread protection failures are caused by our lack of awareness of the problems these children face, arguing instead that our societies have a deep-seated ambivalence to migrant children—one we need to address head-on.While young children's rights have received considerable attention and have accordingly advanced over the last two decades, adolescent rights have been neglected, resulting in a serious rights lacuna. Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Title. The human rights repercussions range from dramatic abuses (detention and deportation) to social marginalization (lack of access to education and health care). Edit My Profile; My Person List (0) Return to Top . Jacqueline Bhabha is Director of Research at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health 2011 Children Without a State: A Global Human Rights Challenge . The findings are similar to previous studies conducted on Romani students' experiences in Serbia ... Discriminating against Romani people, already marginalized and forced to live and work in toxic and overcrowded conditions, is a grave human rights violation that threatens the public health of all members of the community, Roma and non Roma. Early motherhood is associated in global studies with infant and child mortality, preterm birth and stunting, both of which are associated with reduced child development [26,29].
Copyright © 2020 The President and Fellows of The overall objective is to understand the mechanisms through which girl child marriage affects the health and well-being of their children in sub-Saharan Africa, as wel...In this paper, we compare the key attributes and experiences of a sample of 413 young women, who attended government versus private schools at the primary and secondary level. Jacqueline Strimpel Bhabha (born 1951) is a British academic, and an attorney.
2 Article 1, Convention des Nations Unies relative aux droits de l’enfant de 1989. The book identifies three contemporary manifestations of statelessness: legal statelessness, when people lack any nationality because of the circumstances of their birth or political and legal obstacles; de facto statelessness, when nationals of one country live illegally in another; and effective statelessness, when legal citizens lack the documentation to prove their right to state services.] This manifests itself in pervasive gender-based violence, widespread youth disaffection and unemployment, concerning levels of self-abuse, violence and antisocial engagement, and serious mental and physical health deficits. The paper discusses the social and political dynamics of these two transitions...This article addresses a contemporary demographic phenomenon, the growing presence of young migrant children and adolescents, and outlines the perils that this population faces. She received a … Across the range of disciplines that make up contemporary human rights, from law and social advocacy, to global health, to history, economics, sociology, politics, and psychology, it is time for adolescent rights to occupy a coherent place of their own.Children are among the most vulnerable citizens of the world, with a special need for the protections, rights, and services offered by states. Thirty-six percent of all births in the world are not registered, leaving more than forty-eight million children under the age of five with no legal identity and no formal claim on any state.