Book contents
- Global Norms with a Local Face
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations: 143
- Global Norms with a Local Face
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Between Global Norms and Local Translation
- 2 To Socialize or to Localize?
- 3 Guatemala and the International Community
- 4 Translating Children’s Rights
- 5 Translating a Right to Access Information
- 6 Translating Scripts for Rule-of-Law Commissions
- 7 Towards an Interactive Perspective on Norm Translation
- 8 Balancing Global Norms and Local Faces
- Book part
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations
4 - Translating Children’s Rights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2017
Book contents
- Global Norms with a Local Face
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations: 143
- Global Norms with a Local Face
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Between Global Norms and Local Translation
- 2 To Socialize or to Localize?
- 3 Guatemala and the International Community
- 4 Translating Children’s Rights
- 5 Translating a Right to Access Information
- 6 Translating Scripts for Rule-of-Law Commissions
- 7 Towards an Interactive Perspective on Norm Translation
- 8 Balancing Global Norms and Local Faces
- Book part
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Summary
This chapter concerns the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which established a rights-based approach to childhood. This chapter traces the Guatemalan discourse around this precise convention and shows how changes in the modes of interaction employed by international actors affected the domestic translation process. Following the initial rejection of children’s rights at the end of the 1990s, a more inclusive discussion took place under the auspices of UNICEF. This led to a new emphasis on family-values and a reshaping of the CRC – though the overall degree of deviation from the CRC was minor.
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- Global Norms with a Local FaceRule-of-Law Promotion and Norm Translation, pp. 83 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017