Women's rights are human rights and children's rights are human rights.
Research on critical child rights theory, human rights education and the women who shaped United Nations human rights history.
Rebecca Adami is Associate Professor of Education at Stockholm University. Her research develops critical child rights theory, examines human rights education, and recovers the history of the women, many of them from the Global South, who shaped human rights at the United Nations.
She has been a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University in New York. At Stockholm University she teaches in the interdisciplinary master's programme in child and youth studies and is part of the research group Philosophical and Critical Studies in Education.
Her writing on women in diplomacy received the 2022 Bertha Lutz Prize from the Diplomatic Studies Section of the International Studies Association.
Interview about the book Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child
Children constitute more than a third of the world's population, and 'children' as a heterogeneous group consists of all other marginalised groups. Nonetheless, theorizations on the limits of social justice generally do not recognise children's additional marginalisation through age-based power structures.
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On women in UN history and critical child rights theory
A critical history of women shaping human rights at the United Nations.
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Legal, political and ethical challenges to realise children's rights.
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The affirmative potential of critical theory
Intersectional solidarity envisions alliances for human rights that speak of the heterogeneity of groups that act in solidarity for equity: the enactment of political and social demands for increased human rights for all, and allyship across difference against overlapping forms of neglect, war, colonialism and poverty.
View more70th Anniversary UDHR at the UN Headquarters, New York
Celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 70 years after its adoption in 1948. The photo exhibit 'Women who helped shape the declaration' was opened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres with President of the General Assembly María Fernanda Espinosa, and is based on Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2019).
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Recent work
UN Chronicle · Critical Child Rights Theory
Stockholm University, Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching · Human Rights Education
Routledge, monograph · Critical Child Rights Theory
Queen Mary, University of London · Critical Child Rights Theory
Human Rights Education Review, with Adams Lyngbäck · Critical Child Rights Theory
