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The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in the Approach of Key International Law Actors to the Circumcision of Children (2019)
Journal Article
Sandland, R. (2019). The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in the Approach of Key International Law Actors to the Circumcision of Children. Human Rights Law Review, 19(4), 617-647. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngz030

This article analyses the approach of key international actors to the circumcision of children, seeking, first, to understand why the policy towards the circumcision or genital cutting of girls is so different from that towards boys. As part of this... Read More about The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in the Approach of Key International Law Actors to the Circumcision of Children.

A clash of conventions? Participation, power and the rights of disabled children (2017)
Journal Article
Sandland, R. (2017). A clash of conventions? Participation, power and the rights of disabled children. Media and Communication, 5(3), https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i3.955

This paper considers the neglected topic of the relationship between the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with regard to the participation rights of disabled children. It analyses ke... Read More about A clash of conventions? Participation, power and the rights of disabled children.