Children's Rights and International Development

PART I: CHILDREN AND INSTITUTIONAL CARE Home Truths: Children's Rights in Institutional Care in Sri Lanka; D.Seneviratne & F.Mariam Juvenile Justice in São Paulo, Brazil: Violence and Denied Opportunities; J.D. McLennan, F.D. Rigato, & I.A.S.Bordin Children in Institutional and Alternative Care in Viet Nam: A Review of Current Policy and Practice; J.Bergeron & S.Tanaka PART II: CHILD LABOR, VIOLENCE AND EXPLOITATION Child Laborers in the Bolivian Mining Sector: Exploring Children's Experiences and Perspectives; J.Albarracin-Jordan & T.Bouchard Breaking the Silence: The Voices of Girls Forcibly Involved in Armed Conflict in Angola; V.Stavrou Addressing Youth Violence and Aggression in Colombia: Examining Community-wide Prevention Initiative; L.F.Duque, M.Ungar, & B.Caicedo PART III: CHILD RIGHTS, EDUCATION AND PARTICIPATION: The Dynamics of Youth Participation: Insights From Research Fieldwork with Female Youth in Senegal; R.Maclure From Education to Equality? Bolivian AdolescentMales' Understanding of Gender Equality in the Wake of Sensitivity Workshops; C.Gervais PART IV: COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACHES TO CHILD RIGHTS AND PROTECTION The Wayo Programme in Northern Uganda: Building on Traditional Assets in Supporting Acholi Young Women and Girls in the Context of War and HIV; S.Patel, P.Spittal, H.Muyinda, G.Oyat, & N.Sewankambo Rethinking the Orphan Crisis: Community-based Responses to Orphan Care in Malawi; L.Riley & E.Lupafya The Fluctuations of Child Worker Support: A Study of Female Domestic Workers in Senegal; D.Lavan & R.Maclure Circles of Care: Community-Based Child Protection in South Africa; P.Cook & L.duToit

MYRIAM DENOV Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University, Canada. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar. She is the author of Child Soldiers: Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front (Cambridge University Press).

RICHARD MACLURE Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and has published widely on issues pertaining to international education and the circumstances of youth in developing countries.

KATHRYN CAMPBELL Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She conducts research and teaches in the field of social justice.