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This chapter is an extended version of the symposium paper that presents Judith as a person of flesh and blood rather than an icon some people may believe she has become. Her work was who she was and who she was made her work. Her character, her Lebensanschauung and how she approached almost everything shaped her work. I presented the symposium paper from the privileged position of somebody who knew her for just over 30 years, was as close to her as almost anybody has ever been and remained one of her closest friends and colleagues until her final day. Therefore this chapter is biographical but perhaps somewhat more intimate by showing a little more what was behind her work which is the Judith Ennew most people knew.
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Following its adoption in 1989, UNICEF chose to promote the CRC using four categories: survival, development, protection and participation. Nigel Cantwell argued that the choice of these categories reflected UNICEF’s own agenda with its emphasis on survival and development. He believed the categorisation had the unfortunate side effect of placing too much emphasis on survival rights since it implied, whether deliberately or not, survival rights are more important than the other categories.
Cantwell preferred the categorisation that became known as the ‘3 Ps’:
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The right to provision of basic needs.
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The right to protection from harmful acts and practices.
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The right to participation in decisions affecting their lives.
The ‘3 Ps’ were developed by Defence for Children International (DCI) with UNICEF as an easy to remember catchphrase to describe parts of the CRC. According to Cantwell, they were chosen for three reasons:
‘as a short and snappy means of conveying the essential aspects of this instrument to a wide public not necessarily knowledgeable about human rights, to avoid reference to the traditional categories of human rights (civil, political, economic, social and cultural) which were believed to be too controversial - particularly the idea of civil and political rights for children, and to highlight the innovation that children henceforth had not only the right to receive services (provision), and to be protected from acts (protection), but also to play an active role in terms of decisions about their own lives as well as in society as a whole (participation)’. Cantwell 1993.
Cantwell argued that the ‘3 Ps’ were initially viewed as a pedagogic tool whereby provision, protection and participation rights were ‘both necessary and interdependent elements in the panoply of human rights to be accorded to children’. He warned against interpretation of the ‘3 Ps’ as distinct and contrasting types of rights instead of them being ‘three elements to be necessarily taken into account in formulating policies on any issue’.
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Just for the record. In 1981 whilst preparing for 2 years researching the socio-economic context of juvenile street workers in the informal sector of Lima, Leah Levin of Anti-Slavery recommended Judith to meet Nigel Cantwell and Per Tegmo who had set up Defence for Children International in 1979 during a preparatory visit to Geneva. Once in Peru, she had began to establish contact with people expert in the child labour field, thus in the same year met Alejandro Cussiánovich. Nigel and Alejandro both took part in the symposium; the latter is a contributor to this collection. She maintained contact with them for the rest of her life.
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‘Our family’ refers to ‘my family’ now, particularly the way see did not want to be seen as a proxy, usually absentee aunt or grandmother, but simply one of ‘us’.
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Movimiento de Adolescentes y Niños Trabajadores Hijos de Obreros Cristianos.
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Co-written with Paul Hirst and Keith Tribe who were both well-known young sociologists. Judith’s main input was an economic anthropologist; the part of social anthropology she often said defined her at the time of her doctoral research into the effects of oil-related industry on the social and economic life of islanders in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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Milne, B. (2017). The 3Ps of Judith Ennew: Person, Philosophy and Pragmatism. In: Invernizzi, A., Liebel, M., Milne, B., Budde, R. (eds) ‘Children Out of Place’ and Human Rights . Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33251-2_2
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