ABSTRACT
‘Each time we let in a new excluded group, each time we listen to a new way of knowing, we learn more about our current way of seeing.’ This was written by Carrie Menkel-Meadow in 1987, and it was not written about children, or their rights. But it is a useful point to make at the beginning of a chapter on children’s rights. The language of rights can make visible what has too long been suppressed. And children’s rights, their values were for most of history not discussed, indeed they were denigrated.
