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Karsten Åström

Karsten Åström

Professor emeritus

Karsten Åström

Children’s right to water as a contested domain: Gendered reflections from India

Author

  • Nandita Singh
  • Per Wickenberg
  • Karsten Åström
  • Håkan Hydén

Summary, in English

Nandita Singh and her colleagues look at children’s water

rights in India. They argue for the exercise of the right to water by

children by analysing the universal normative-legal framework and

its difference to the local socio-culturally defined framework. They

suggest that defining problems and designing actions only within

the normative-legal framework can obscure understanding the

critical realities at the right-holders’ end. They suggest that

interventions at various levels, such as through policy and targeted

programmes, have at best provided an ‘‘enabling environment’’,

but the process of implementation of children’s rights at the

right-holders’ end is to date an incomplete socio-cultural process

Department/s

  • Department of Sociology of Law

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

102-107

Publication/Series

Development (London)

Volume

51

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Law and Society

Keywords

  • CEDAW
  • community
  • human rights instruments
  • legal frameworks
  • special needs

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1011-6370