Introduction; 1. Living rights, social justice, translations Karl Hanson and Olga Nieuwenhuys; Part I. Living Rights: 2. Ukugana: 'informal marriage' and children's rights discourse among rural 'AIDS-orphans' in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Patricia C. Henderson; 3. Seeing and knowing? Street children's lifeworlds through the camera's lens Phil Mizen and Yaw Ofosu-Kusi; 4. Interdependent rights and agency: the role of children in collective livelihood strategies in rural Ethiopia Tatek Abebe; 5. Young carpet weavers on the rights threshold: protection or practical self-determination? Tom O'Neill; Part II. Social Justice: 6. Conflicting realities: the Kikuyu ethos and the CRC ethic Yvan Droz; 7. The politics of failure: street children and the circulation of rights discourses in Kolkata (Calcutta), India Sarada Balagopalan; 8. Malik and his three mothers: AIDS orphans' survival strategies and how children's rights hinder them Kristen E. Cheney; Part III. Translations: 9. Living history by youth in post-war situations Colette Daiute; 10. Inclusive universality and the child-caretaker dynamic Eva Brems; 11. Do children have a right to work? Working children's movements in the struggle for social justice Manfred Liebel; 12. Translating working children's rights into international labour law Karl Hanson and Arne Vandaele; Part IV. Conclusion: 13. Children's rights and social movements: reflections from a cognate field Neil Stammers.