1st Edition
Child Marriage, Rights and Choice Rethinking Agency in International Human Rights
By Hoko Horii
Copyright 2022
192 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.
In international campaigns against child marriage, there is a puzzle of agency: While international human rights institutions celebrate girls’ exercise of their agency not to marry, they do not recognize their agency to marry. Child marriage, usually defined as ‘any formal marriage or informal union where one or both of the... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Discourse 3. Compromise 4. Harmony 5. Modernity 6. Agency 7. Conclusion
Biography
Hoko Horii is a lecturer at the VanVollenhoven Institute in Leiden University, and a post-doctoral fellow at Kobe University. Her expertise lies in the field of socio-legal studies, legal philosophy, human rights law, and children’s rights. Combining knowledge from these fields, her research interest concentrates on law, rights, and righteousness. In her research she observes court cases and interviews legal practitioners, social activists, youth, and others.
