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This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world.Taking the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) as conceptual frameworks, this work appraises the current state of affairs concerning the rights of disabled children across different stages of childhood, different life domains, and different socio-cultural contexts.The book is divided into four sections: Legislation and Policy Children's Voice The Life Course in Childhood Life Domains in Childhood Comprised of 37 newly commissioned chapters featuring analyses of UN documents and case studies from Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vanuatu, its multidisciplinary approach reflects the complexities of the lives of disabled children and the multifarious nature of the strategies needed to ensure their rights are upheld.It will be of interest to researchers and students working in disability studies, education, allied health, law, philosophy, play studies, social policy, and the sociology of childhood. It will also be a valuable resource for professionals/practitioners, allowing them to consider future directions for ensuring that disabled children's rights are realised and their well-being and dignity are assured.

In the wake of the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases, a wide-ranging international conversation was started regarding alternative thresholds for intervention and the different balances that can be made in weighing up the rights and interests of the child, the parent's rights and responsibilities and the role of medical professionals and the courts. This collection provides a comparative perspective on these issues by bringing together analysis from a range of jurisdictions across Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. Contextualising the differences and similarities, and drawing out the cultural and social values that inform the approach in different countries, this volume is highly valuable to scholars across jurisdictions, not only to inform their own local debate on how best to navigate such cases, but also to foster inter-jurisdictional debate on the issues. The book brings together commentators from the fields of law, medical ethics, and clinical medicine across the world, actively drawing on the view from the clinic as well as philosophical, legal and sociological perspectives on the crucial question of who should decide about the fate of a child suffering from a serious illness. In doing so, the collection offers comprehensive treatment of the key questions around whether the current best interests approach is still appropriate, and if not, what the alternatives are. It engages head-on with the concerns seen in both the academic and popular literature that there is a need to reconsider the orthodoxy in this area.

'تأتي هاته الدراسة حول الحماية القانونية لفئة الأطفال المسعفين في شكل كتاب لتضاف إلى الأبحاث السابقة المتعددة التي إحتوت الجوانب المتصلة بالتكفل الإجتماعي و النفسي ، دون أن يتم التطرق للجوانب القانونية و الإستفاضة في إبراز حقوق هاته الفئة المحرومة من أهم شيء في الحياة و هو'العائلة'و يعالج هذا الكتاب القانوني المحددات المفاهمية المتصلة بالأطفال المسعفين و تصنيفهم أسباب وضعيتهم، و أهم الحقوق التمييزية التي تم إقرارها لهم.سواء على المستوى الدولي لا سيما إتفاقية حقوق الطفل 1989 و المواثيق الدولية ذات الصلة.كما تم إبراز أهم الحقوق على المستوى الوطني لا سيما الدستورية منها ،و كذا التكفل المؤسساتي طبقا للمرسوم التنفيذي 12-04 ،و إقرار نظام الكفالة في القانون 84-11 المتعلق بالأسرة المعدل و المتمم لأجل ضمان إمكانية إيجاد عائلة بديلة في حدود مبادئ الشريعة الإسلامية ، بالموازاة مع ذلك إقرار وسائل الرقابة الدولية و الوطنية تأكيدا على ضمان حماية حقوق هاته الفئة و توفير الأليات الكفيلة بذلك.