Children’s Rights Research Moving into the Future – Challenges on the Way Forward

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Quennerstedt
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
The Way

The expansion of the research into children’s rights during the last 20 years has constituted children’s rights research as an established and legitimate field of study. The time may now be ripe to reflect on the work undertaken so far and to consider the future of children’s rights research. In recent years, self-critical voices have surfaced within the research field, pointing out possible areas of concern. The ambition of this paper is to contribute to such deliberations within children’s rights research. In the paper, comments and concerns that have been put forward are brought together and developed further, leading to the suggestion that research into children’s rights issues will need to address three major challenges on the way forward: advancing critique, increasing theorisation and contextualising research.

Educational Children’s Rights Research 1989–2019: Achievements, Gaps and Future Prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-208
Author(s):  
Ann Quennerstedt ◽  
Zoe Moody
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Rights Issues

Since the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, research into children’s rights issues in educational contexts has grown significantly. This paper takes stock of the evolution of educational children’s rights research, and provides a characterisation of the research field. By means of a systematic analysis of the published scholarship, the main achievements of the research are identified, as well as gaps in knowledge production. Major research foci are highlighted, the theoretical and methodological characteristics of the field are demonstrated, and concerns are identified. Based on the insights gained from analysis of the research field, future prospects are identified and discussed, and some possible routes forward for educational children’s rights research are suggested.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Strategies Used by Local Government Leaders in Combating Children’s Rights Violation in Arusha City, Tanzania

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (Issue 4) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Denis Mwaipopo Josephat ◽  
Elias Elisha Mbuti
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Community Protection ◽  
The Government ◽  
Rights Issues

This study sought to establish the effectiveness of strategies used by local government leaders in combating violation of children’s rights in Arusha City using the descriptive design. The population involved 168 local government leaders from 24 Wards whereby the sample of 96 was picked through simple random sampling, but the response rate was 71 (73.9%). Validity was assured through expert judgment and the reliability was established through determination of the Cronbach’s Alfa which was above 0.6 for each variable. The study established that strategies used by local government leaders in combating violation of Children’s rights include desks at police stations for children right cases, education to the community, protection committees that coordinate and monitor violation of children’s rights, local government authorities providing legal aid, perpetrators being prosecuted so that legal action can be taken against them and free family events and activities for children’s rights education. The strategies were perceived to be effective except for children’s desk at police stations. Identified challenges included some cases not being reported, poor cooperation from victims, corruption, lack of political will and ineffective policies. It is recommended that appropriate organs should strengthen the use of strategies listed in this study in order to curb violation of children’s rights issues. There is a need for transformations in handling reported cases at the police desks. Finally, the government authorities should find ways to curb the identified challenges that faced initiatives used by local government leaders in combating violation of children’s rights in Arusha city.

Toward a More Youthful Democracy

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-160
Author(s):  
Richard P. Hiskes
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Group Rights ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Rights Issues

This concluding chapter begins with a discussion of how the global coronavirus pandemic called attention to children’s rights issues, specifically in how children were not allowed to participate in decisions directly affecting their “best interests,” as required by CRC. Granting children human rights will fundamentally alter the nature of both democracy and human rights. Giving children citizenship rights will renew democracy, as past enfranchisements have, but also will push democracies to resemble less Western, liberal models. Group rights will predominate in democracies where children are full citizens. Also, the human rights agendas of child-incorporating democracies will be dominated by social and economic rights issues, since children’s rights of protection and provision will be given priority. Finally, children’s participation rights will emerge as crucial in diminishing structural inequality in democratic societies, providing a pathway to a fuller form of social justice predicated on the human rights of children.

scholarly journals Philosophy with Children: A Rights-based Approach to Deliberative Participation

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Philosophical Dialogue ◽  
Rights Issues

In advancing children’s rights, and human rights more broadly, this article supports the view that participation through deliberation by children is desirable. Practising Philosophy with Children, through an approach such as Community of Philosophical Inquiry, is proposed as a powerful way forward as a rights-based means of supporting children to deliberate about matters affecting them in society. In considering that children are educated about, through and for rights, an example of children’s philosophical dialogue is provided to illustrate children deliberating on rights issues, and how teachers might use such dialogue to influence their teaching in this area. The suggestion is that participating in practical philosophy enables children to practise human rights behaviour as a means of participating beyond consultation exercises and as an approach to facilitating their engagement with ideas and issues that are important to the promotion of rights for all.

The future of children's rights

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals “When will fieldwork open up again?” Beginning a project in pandemic times

2020 ◽  
Vol 198 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 230-233
Author(s):  
Katia Favilla ◽  
Tatiana Pita
Keyword(s):  
Health Systems ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
World Population ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
The Future ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Entire World ◽  
The Way

The entire world population was taken by surprise by the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic has transformed our lives through its impact on health systems, the economy, on work and the way that we work, and has created feelings of uncertainty about the future. We intend to reflect on how the Covid-19 pandemic has transformed academic life in general, but primarily how it has affected our research projects, given the closure of the field of study and the isolation of interlocutors. We reflect on the adoption of digital methods to communicate with our interlocutors and interviewees and its implications and ask ourselves when fieldwork will open up once more.

Children, But Not Really Humans? Critical Reflections on the Hampering Effect of the "3 p's"

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Quennerstedt
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
Critical Reflections

AbstractIn this paper, the widespread use of the "3 p's", provision, protection and participation, to categorise children's rights is critically examined. This conceptualisation is argued to have hampering effects on research in children's rights, in that it frames the research in a problematic way and hinders the possibilities of attaining theoretically driven analyses. In the paper, the emergence and use of the 3 p's is first traced and discussed. Thereafter, an alternative language for constructing and analysing children's rights is proposed, namely the vocabulary used for general human rights: civil, political and social rights. When children's rights are placed within the development of human rights and conceptualised accordingly, a different understanding of the content of children's rights surfaces. The theoretical contextualisation that is then added is suggested as a way of approaching contradictions and conflicts surrounding children's rights issues with more theoretical depth and nuances.

Assessing Potentially Violent Extremists

2021 ◽  
pp. 639-653
Author(s):  
Lieke Bootsma ◽  
Ellen Harbers
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Professional Judgment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Structured Professional Judgment ◽  
National Police ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

This chapter describes the way investigative psychologists of the Dutch National Police assess behavior of potentially violent extremists. Investigative psychologists in the Netherlands have adopted structured professional judgment as the best framework to do so. The different phases investigative psychologists go through in practice while assessing the risk of violence for these potential extremists are set out. Specifically, the following steps are explored: intake and triage, information gathering, conducting a behavioral timeline, risk assessment, risk formulation, scenario thinking, and advice. Lastly, the future challenges in this field of operations are discussed.

Conclusions

2020 ◽  
pp. 393-400
Author(s):  
Claire Fenton-Glynn
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Margin Of Appreciation ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
The Many

This chapter summarises how, as an instrument for the protection of children’s rights, the European Convention on Human Rights has come a long way from its limited beginnings in 1950, and the many achievements of the Court in enforcing and progressing children’s rights, both in terms of substantive rights and procedural safeguards. However, it also acknowledges the deficiencies of the Convention as a child rights instrument, noting in particular the lack of strong participation rights for children, the focus on ‘best interests’ rather than rights, and the emphasis placed on the margin of appreciation. Finally, the chapter outlines possible future challenges for children’s rights before the Court.

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