{"title":"“I Will Not Stand Aside and Watch. I Will Not be Silent”","authors":"Amy Hanna, Gabriela Martínez Sainz","doi":"10.1163/15718182-31040002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-31040002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Children are not typically considered as being “political”, but they do possess the right to freedom of association and peaceful assembly under international human rights instruments such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Nonetheless, a lack of commentary and jurisprudence on this right of children and young people has left it largely unexplored. This article presents the findings from a digital ethnography during the #FridaysForFuture and #ClimateStrikeOnline strikes in 2020 during which young people claimed their right to freedom of assembly both in person and online. Focusing on the right to freedom of assembly, we apply Bennett and Segerberg’s (2012) concept of “connective action” to conceptualise these rights for children and young people under the uncrc, and present a four-part model that captures young people’s exercise of their rights as “connect”, “express”, “collect” and “enact”.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"47 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139012155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Orphanage Trafficking and International Law, written by Kathryn E. van Doore","authors":"Elizabeth A. Faulkner","doi":"10.1163/15718182-31040010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-31040010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"333 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139012252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dimitri Patrinos, Robyn McDougall, M. Beauvais, B. Knoppers
{"title":"Whither Health Research","authors":"Dimitri Patrinos, Robyn McDougall, M. Beauvais, B. Knoppers","doi":"10.1163/15718182-31040005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-31040005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Under Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc), children have the right to the highest attainable standard of health. One component of this right that has received little attention is the connection between children’s health and their participation in health-related research. This represents a missed opportunity in the full realisation of the right to health. This paper accordingly argues that Article 24 should obligate or incentivise State Parties to create more research opportunities for children in implementing this right. It explores the links between paediatric research and children’s health, highlighting the impacts of the lack of research on the paucity or absence of many treatment and prevention options for childhood diseases. It also considers the application of other rights which may be implicated in paediatric research. While paediatric health-related research is imperative, it must occur within a framework which respects all children’s rights.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139012125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Doing Harm Was the Point’","authors":"Amy Risley","doi":"10.1163/15718182-31040007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-31040007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article analyses the Trump administration’s policy of forcibly separating thousands of immigrant families at the border. Using a rights-based and childist approach, I explore the policy’s severe consequences for children’s rights to family unity and protection from cruel and degrading treatment. I argue that family separations abandoned the best-interests principle and entailed severe rights violations and due process irregularities. The policy deliberately inflicted suffering and trauma on immigrant families to deter immigrants and coerce asylum-seekers into relinquishing their claims to protection, contrary to treaty obligations and domestic laws. The article also examines the policy’s formulation and implementation, which were characterised by cruelty, chaos and confusion. This case provides incontrovertible evidence of the myriad strategies governments use to exclude immigrant children from the benefits of the global children’s rights regime.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"307 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139012291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing Children’s Participation Through Direct Reporting to the Public Authorities","authors":"Joëlle Long","doi":"10.1163/15718182-31040004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-31040004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Powerful tools for promoting children’s rights include direct reporting, which refers to communicative acts performed by individuals below the age of 18 to draw the attention of public authorities to rights’ violations experienced by themselves or their peers. However, for various reasons, children rarely reach out to public authorities to report offences or abuse. Drawing on data collected from focus groups with children, field visits to children’s ombudspersons, and two surveys conducted as part of the Children Digi-core project, we argue that while direct reporting can empower young people by giving them a voice, it can also result in secondary victimisation if not properly managed. Therefore, it is crucial to establish clear guidelines and procedures to ensure the well-being and protection of children. In light of this, the article offers recommendations to public authorities, particularly local ombudspersons for children, on how to collect and handle children’s reports.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"84 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139011925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Most of the Time we are Taking Decisions for Children","authors":"N. Shaik","doi":"10.1163/15718182-31040008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-31040008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000It is imperative that children’s participatory rights are supported and therefore it is incumbent upon adults genuinely to listen to them and take their views seriously. However, 28 years into a democratic South Africa and children’s participatory rights are not fully actualised and implementation seems to be problematic in early childhood education. The purpose of this article was to explore 13 final-year student teachers’ understandings about children’s participatory rights in the Reception Year (Grade R) and how these understandings influence their practice using Lundy’s model of participation and Honneth’s theory of recognition. A qualitative approach was applied, and data was collected through a focus group interview that was undertaken online. The data revealed that student teachers had a limited understanding of children’s participatory rights but aligned more towards children’s protection rights. Additionally, whilst the participants related the concepts of Lundy’s model of participation to mainly pedagogical scenarios that lacked children’s genuine participation, the participants gave children the recognition to building their self-confidence, self-respect and self-esteem.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"89 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139011923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children’s Rights and Conflict: The Role of Research","authors":"Laura Lundy, H. Stalford","doi":"10.1163/15718182-31040011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-31040011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139012244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Legal Case for Children’s Right to Vote in the United States","authors":"Sonja Grover, John Wall, Robin Chen","doi":"10.1163/15718182-31040001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-31040001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article argues that US constitutional law supports the right to vote of children regardless of age. First, it places US law in the context of the legal, philosophical, and social scientific discussion of the issue and recent children’s suffrage movements, which suggest that barring the right to vote according to age neglects children’s democratic interests, harms societies, and is discriminatory. Second, it considers the further context of US obligations under international law, especially the udhr, iccpr, and crc, in which children’s voting is arguably implied as a universal, equal, and fundamental human right. Finally, it considers US constitutional law itself and shows why ageless voting is an issue of the fundamental interests of children as a suspect class in need of special protection against voting discrimination.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"98 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139012478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sylwia Koziel, L. Hultman, Y. Weitz, Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Magdalena Elmersjö
{"title":"Failures in the Child Perspective","authors":"Sylwia Koziel, L. Hultman, Y. Weitz, Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Magdalena Elmersjö","doi":"10.1163/15718182-31020006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-31020006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Children’s invisibility, non-participation or limited participation can be associated with social workers’ experiences of losing focus of the child in their work, while at the same time navigating organisational and legal demands where a child perspective is strongly promoted. This article sheds light on social workers’ experiences of working with a child perspective and with children’s participation. Six in-depth interviews were conducted with professionals from social services and ngo s and from different child welfare services in Sweden. Our findings indicate that losing focus of the child is a common phenomenon that relates to the dominance of adult-centred practice and that child-centred methods need to be developed. Social workers from ngo s described having better opportunities for working in a child-centred way. Losing focus of the child mirrors the subordinated position of child-centred practice, proving that a child perspective and children’s participation are still inadequately anchored in social work practice.","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133597056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"H. Horii, Child Marriage, Rights and Choice: Rethinking Agency in International Human Rights","authors":"E. V. van Daalen","doi":"10.1163/15718182-31020003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-31020003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":217193,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Children’s Rights","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129039568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}