scholarly journals Medical, statistical, ethical and human rights considerations in the assessment of age in children and young people subject to immigration control

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Aynsley-Green ◽  
T. J. Cole ◽  
H. Crawley ◽  
N. Lessof ◽  
L. R. Boag ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Young People ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Immigration Control

scholarly journals Exploring Children’s Understanding of the Legal Rights of Suspects in England and Wales

Youth Justice ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 147322542110305
Author(s):  
Vicky Kemp ◽  
Dawn Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Young People ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
International Human ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Human Rights Standards

While studies have explored adult suspects’ understanding of their legal rights, seldom are the experiences of children and young people taken into account. In this article, we discuss findings arising out of research interviews conducted with 61 children and young people; many of whom have experience of being suspects. From listening to their points-of-view, we find that children and young people fundamentally lack understanding of the rights of suspects, and especially the inalienable nature of those rights. We argue this is not surprising when children are being dealt with in an adult-centred punitive system of justice, which is contrary to international human rights standards.

scholarly journals Participation and the role of Public Space

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Gabriel Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Young People ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
Broad Definition ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of

This article examines participatory rights as human rights and considers their importance to the lives of children and young people. It argues that a broad definition of participation needs to be used which takes us from 'round tables' to understanding that young people participate in many different ways. It points out that failure to recognise and respect the many varied ways that children and young people choose to participate results in a breach of their human rights. It shows how our socio-legal system operates to permit and support these breaches of the rights of children and young people, resulting in their alienation from civic society.

Decolonising concepts of participation and protection in sensitive research with young people: local perspectives and decolonial strategies of Palestinian research advisors

Childhood ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 090756822110255
Author(s):  
Erika Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Young People ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Advisory Groups ◽  
Local Perspectives

Scholars in childhood research have been reconsidering whether the participation of children and young people in sensitive research is necessary. This paper questions whether some of these objections arise out of colonial attitudes towards childhood, young people, human rights, and research. This paper draws on a participatory study that sought to ascertain how Palestinian young people construct their understandings of human rights. Discussion of some of the local perspectives and decolonial strategies offered by the Young People’s Advisory Groups show how they facilitated the voices of their peers safely and decolonised concepts of participation and protection in the process.

Promoting the Human Rights of Children and Young People: The ‘Investing in Children’ Experience

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Cairns ◽  
Maria Brannen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Young People ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Alternative Discourse ◽  
Decision Making Processes

As long as children and young people remain politically voiceless and powerless, there will be little change to their status in society. Liam Cairns and Maria Brannen reflect upon their experiences of attempting to promote an alternative discourse within which children and young people are seen as active citizens, who are knowledgeable about their world and able to play a full part in decision-making processes that affect them. They draw upon case studies from a project called ‘Investing in Children’ to illustrate promising developments as well as some of the obstacles in their path.

scholarly journals The Human Rights Act 1998: implications for the medical treatment of children and young people

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 413-420
Author(s):  
Martin Curtice ◽  
Tim Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Capacity To Consent ◽  
Human Rights Act ◽  
Human Rights Act 1998

SummaryIssues pertaining to the medical treatment of children and young people can be both complex and emotive for all involved. At such times the courts may be asked to intervene and decide. Cases invariably need to consider issues of capacity to consent and treatment under best interests. Furthermore, such cases inevitably have human rights aspects. This article analyses the diverse role of the Human Rights Act 1998 in these cases and illustrates key underlying Human Rights Act principles that can be applied in clinical practice.

A Minor Matter? The Place of Young People in an EU Human Security Doctrine

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-147
Author(s):  
Jenny Kuper
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Young People ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
A Minor

AbstractThis article is a modified version of a paper written for the LSE-based 'Study Group on Europe's Security Capabilities'. It argues for the inclusion of children and young people as a specific constituency within a proposed new Human Security doctrine for EU military and peacekeeping interventions. The article outlines the importance of children/youth in relation to certain key principles of this Human Security approach, including the principles of: a) primacy of human rights; b) clear political authority; c) a 'bottom-up' approach, and d) multilateralism. It looks at a number of initiatives within the UN and EU that already recognise the importance of children and youth, and it concludes by suggesting strategies for raising the profile of children/youth in the proposed EU Human Security agenda.

School Reform, Educational Governance, and Discourses on Social Justice and Democratic Education in Germany

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mechtild Gomolla
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
School Reform ◽  
School Effectiveness ◽  
Democratic Education ◽  
School Development ◽  
Educational Governance ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
International Student Assessment

In Germany, at the beginning of the 2000s, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) not only served as a catalyst for the development and implementation of an overall strategy for quality assurance and development of the state school systems. The school effectiveness movement has also brought the issue of educational inequality, which had been lost out of sight in the 1980s, back on the agenda. In ongoing reforms, the improvement of the educational success of children and young people with a migration history and/or a socioeconomically deprived family background has been declared a priority. However similar to the situation in Anglo-American countries, where output-oriented and data-driven school reforms have been implemented since the 1980s, considerable tensions and contradictions became visible between the New Educational Governance and a human rights- and democracy-oriented school development. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of central education and integration policy documents at the federal political level from 1964 to 2019 examined how, and with what consequences, demands of inclusion, social justice, and democracy were incorporated, (re)conceptualized, distorted, or excluded in the New Educational Governance, which was a new type of school reform in Germany. The results of the study indicate that the new regulations of school development are far from shaping school conditions in a human rights–based understanding of inclusion and democratic education. The plethora of measures taken to improve the school success of children and young people with a history of migration (in interaction with other dimensions of inequality such as poverty, gender, or special educational needs) is undermined by a far-reaching depoliticization of discourse and normative revaluations. In the interplay of epistemology, methodology, and categories of school effectiveness research with managerialist steering instruments, spaces for democratic school development and educational processes, in which aspects of plurality, difference, and discrimination can be thematized and addressed in concerted professional action, appear to be systematically narrowed or closed. But the case of Germany also discloses some opposed tendencies, associated with the strengthened human rights discourse and new legislation to combat discrimination.

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