What Children and Parents Think about Children’s Right to Participation

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-328
Author(s):  
Hanita Kosher
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Right To Participation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Actual Participation

Recent years have witnessed an increase in the global commitment to children’s rights in general and their rights to self-determination and participation in particular. This has been firmly expressed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children, which recognises the right of children to participate in decisions about their own lives. The present study examined perceptions and attitudes regarding the concept of children’s right to participation among children and parents from Israel. The results indicate that children showed a tendency to support the right to participation to a greater extent than the parents. The results also revealed that the attitudes of children and parents varied by the context and situation in which the right to participation is realised (school, family, and public settings). Finally, children’s actual participation was found to be associated with children’s and parents’ attitudes towards children’s right to participation.

Children’s rights in Taiwan: A qualitative study on social workers’ perspectives

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087282095185
Author(s):  
Hsin-Yi Chen ◽  
I-Chen Tang
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Young Children ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations

The aim of this study was to investigate the perspectives of social workers in Taiwan on children’s rights. Among the 94 social workers who were interviewed, most were familiar with children’s rights terminology. From the results of this study, parental needs and the inability of young children to communicate effectively hindered the balance between protection of and participation by children. To better implement children’s rights, social workers should gain a deeper understanding of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and develop skills for communicating well with children and parents.

scholarly journals From Principle to Practice: Youth engagement at the international summer course on the rights of the child

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
Candice Ashley Pollack
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Right To Participation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child creates an express obligation on State parties to take into consideration the views and opinions of children and youth in matters that affect them. State parties, children’s rights advocates, scholars, and non-profits have all recognized the importance of the right to participation, and have undertaken many different approaches to ensure the authenticity of the experience for children and young people. The following note details some of the accepted principles for meaningful youth engagement, and reflects back on the experience of the Youth Rapporteur Programme at the 2015 edition of the International Summer Course on the Rights of the Child.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 176-182
Author(s):  
Adom Getachew
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Institutional Form ◽  
American Imperialism ◽  
Postcolonial State ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Critical Resources

This epilogue charts the fall of self-determination and illustrates that the collapse of anticolonial worldmaking continues to structure our contemporary moment. Picking up in the immediate aftermath of the NIEO, it locates self-determination's fall in two developments—the increasingly critical orientation of Western intellectuals and politicians toward the right to self-determination as well as the diminution of international institutions like the United Nations where anticolonial nationalists had staged their worldmaking. Together the normative erosion of self-determination and marginalization of the United Nations set the stage for the resurgence of international hierarchy and a newly unrestrained American imperialism. At the same time, the critical resources of anticolonial nationalism appeared to be exhausted as the institutional form of the postcolonial state fell short of its democratic and egalitarian aspirations, and anticolonial worldmaking retreated into a minimalist defense of the state.

The Western Liberal Constitution’s Internationalized Making

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-180
Author(s):  
Vijayashri Sripati
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Market Democracy ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Economic Philosophy ◽  
The Right ◽  
Law Making

This chapter chronologically traces the Western liberal Constitution’s internationalization from 1919-1960 to establish UNCA’s birth in 1949, rejection in 1960 and revival in 1960. This chapter comprises three sections. Section 1 traces a rise in the Constitution’s internationalization from 1919 to 1960. Section two covers the United Nations’ role from 1949-1952 in assisting Libya, a former Italian colony, adopt the Constitution and emerge independent. UNCA was rejected in 1960 because the right to self-determination morphed into an absolute right for all colonies, whereby they henceforth enjoyed a right to sculpt constitutions of their choice. At this juncture, UNCA serves a limited purpose: to implement decolonization. Section 3 outlines former UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold’s economic philosophy and his efforts at reviving united nations constitutional assistance to ensure Congo morphs into a market democracy. A discussion of the UN’s constitutional assistance from 1960-64 reveals that its use had nothing to do with perceived local incapacities for governance and how it spawned and guided UN or International territorial administration (e.g., law-making) there.

Art.20 Personal Mobility

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kovudhikulrungsri Lalin ◽  
Hendriks Aart
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Personal Mobility ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
European Court ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right

This chapter examines Article 20 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Personal mobility is a prerequisite for inclusion in a society. According to the European Court of Human Rights, to be mobile and to have access to transport, housing, cultural activities, and leisure is a precondition for the ‘right to establish and develop relations with other human beings’, ‘in professional or business contexts as in others’. The CRPD does not establish new rights for persons with disabilities. It is merely thought to identify specific actions that states and others must take to ensure the effectiveness and inclusiveness of all human rights and to protect against discrimination on the basis of disability. However, the fact that there is no equivalent of the right to personal mobility in any other human rights treaty makes it particularly interesting to examine the genesis and meaning of this provision.

Art.10 Right to Life

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nizar Smitha
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

This chapter examines Article 10 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which affirms every human being’s right to life. It first explores the efforts made by the drafters of the CRPD to frame the right to life of all human beings. It further examines the wider meaning of the right to life and its application, and traces the interpretation given by the CRPD Committee in its concluding observations. In order to understand the micro-level application of the right, the chapter examines the interpretation and its application by domestic and regional courts. Finally, it explores the individual complaints made under the optional protocol and the consequent interpretation provided. This is done to define the jurisprudence surrounding the right to life and the required measures to strengthen and facilitate its wider application as envisaged under the Convention.

Tibetans Wait for China's Next Move

Worldview ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Kesang Tseten
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right ◽  
American Civil Liberties Union ◽  
The U.S ◽  
International League

AbstractIt has been twenty years since the Tibetan uprising. Last March, Tibetans and their American supporters rallied outside the United Nations building to commemorate that uprising against Chinese troops occupying the Tibetan homeland.Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and honorary president of the International League for Human Rights, was there calling for support of resolutions passed three times by the U.S. General Assembly, in 1959, 1961, and 1965. The U.S. called “for respect for the fundamental human rights of the Tibetan people and for their right to self-determination.” The rally, Baldwin said, was to protest the “subjection of six million people to foreign rule” and to uphold “the right to live in your own house.” The nonagenarian champion of civil liberties expressed some hope: “It may be that autonomy, semi-independence in Tibet, may be granted when China settles down into the modernization it seeks.”

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