Lebanon’s waste crisis: An exercise of participation rights

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 701-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe F Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Waste Collection ◽  
Protest Movement ◽  
Multilevel Study ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Participation Rights

A growing body of research reveals the emergence of forms of youth public participation, intensified by digital technologies, practices and cultures. This is a multilevel study of the reconstruction of Lebanese youth and children’s rights in the digital age through discourses and practices of participation in the #YouStink protest movement against a waste collection crisis. The article explores these rights by focusing on children and young people’s engagement with the movement, their ability to express their views freely and to influence decisions. It analyses how such participation through communicative, cultural and political practices becomes a contested resource for various actors, institutions and networks.

scholarly journals Understanding Children’s Participation through an Eliasian Lens: Habitus as a Barrier to Children’s Everyday Participation Rights

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Hester ◽  
Allison Moore
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Moral Competence ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Children's Participation

In spite of the rhetoric of children’s participation in the public sphere, in their everyday life interactions young children’s rights continue to be denied or given entitlement on the basis of assumptions about the social category to which they belong, and opportunities continue to be missed to make links between the everyday and the societal, political and legal contexts by those wishing to further children’s participation rights. Drawing on the sociology of Norbert Elias, particularly his concept of “habitus” and “drag effect” we will explore the dissonance between the public and private status of young children’s rights and suggest ways that this might be remedied. The paper will conclude by arguing that it is important to work towards young children’s increased participation rights in their everyday lives because adults must acknowledge young children’s moral competence to participate in decisions about their everyday lives in order to develop children’s agency to do so.

scholarly journals Tanggung Jawab Orang Tua Kepada Anak di Era Digital Perspektif Hukum Keluarga Islam di Indonesia

AL-HUKAMA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 430-455
Author(s):  
Nur Ahmad Yasin
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Islamic Family Law ◽  
Information Technology And Systems

The digital age is an era where technology and information can be accessed by anyone, anywhere and under any conditions, so that it can have a positive and negative impact on parents’ responsibilities to children and child development. This article is the result of a bibliographical study on parents’ responsibilities to children in the digital age under the perspective of Islamic family law in Indonesia. Data are collected using documentation techniques and analyzed using descriptive methods with deductive mindset. Based on this study, parents are responsible for being more selective in nurturing, educating, and protecting children in today’s digital era. They are also asked to understand information technology and systems. Parents must be able to actualize children’s rights, including: maintenance of honor (?if? al-'ir?), maintenance of religious rights (?if? al-d?n), maintenance of the soul (?if? al-nafs), maintenance of reason (?if? al -'aql) and maintenance of property (?if? al-m?l).

scholarly journals Children and Young People’s Participation Rights: Looking Backwards and Moving Forwards

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina McMellon ◽  
E. Kay M. Tisdall
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Children and young people’s participation is an ever-growing demand. Thirty years on from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’s adoption, however, fundamental challenges continue for participation that are widely recognised cross-nationally but remain stubbornly consistent. As a way in to considering the children and young people’s participation literature more generally, all articles referring to participation in their titles were identified from The International Journal of Children’s Rights. These 56 articles were analysed to identify trends, challenges and opportunities. The analysis found: a remarkably consistent narrative on participation over the 30 years; limitations on domains considered, geography and conceptual clarity; and far more written about challenges than solutions. Drawing on these findings and considering the participation literature more generally, the article recommends that the field expands its geographic and intellectual boundaries, uses powerful concepts like agency, competency and autonomy with greater precision, and explores fresh ideas like child protoganism, activism and children as human rights defenders.

Child Participation in Estonian and Finnish Child Welfare Removals – Professionals’ Perceptions and Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 701-730
Author(s):  
Virve Toivonen ◽  
Jatta Muhonen ◽  
Laura Kalliomaa-Puha ◽  
Katre Luhamaa ◽  
Judit Strömpl
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Child Participation ◽  
Child Welfare Professionals ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Participation Rights

Abstract A child’s right to participate is one of the general principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc). It is an integral part of a child’s right to have his/her best interest taken into account as a primary consideration. Therefore, it is indispensable in the decision-making connected with child welfare removals, the effects of which on the child’s life are long lasting and profound. In this article we examine the perceptions and practices of child-welfare professionals in the context of children’s rights, especially participation rights, in two neighbouring countries: Finland and Estonia. The findings are based on a survey and suggest that in the context of children’s rights, legislation also has its role in making children’s rights a reality, both as a prerequisite for reform as well as in shaping attitudes. However, legal regulation is not enough – full realisation also reguires more information, education and resources.

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.

scholarly journals The datafied child: The dataveillance of children and implications for their rights

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 780-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Lupton ◽  
Ben Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
In Utero ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Detailed Data ◽  
Critical Data ◽  
Monitoring Devices

Children are becoming the objects of a multitude of monitoring devices that generate detailed data about them, and critical data researchers and privacy advocates are only just beginning to direct attention to these practices. In this article, we provide an overview and critique of these varied forms of datafication and dataveillance of children, from in utero through to the school years. Our approach is informed by recent calls for research on children’s rights in the digital age that examines the conditions that give rise to children’s needs and guide provision of resources necessary for development to their full potential, the array of specific harms they may encounter and the significance of and particular opportunities to participate in matters that affect their wellbeing and enable them to play an active part in society. There remains little evidence that specific instruments to safeguard children’s rights in relation to dataveillance have been developed or implemented, and further attention needs to be paid to these issues.

scholarly journals Adults’ Endorsement of Children’s Protection and Participation Rights and Likelihood of Reporting Abuse

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-377
Author(s):  
Ashling Bourke ◽  
Sonia Morris ◽  
Catherine Maunsell
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Two Age Groups

Children’s rights only serve their purpose in as far as they are recognised as rights by those who can exercise them. This study examined a sample of Irish adults’ (predominantly students; n=83) perceptions of children’s participation and protection rights across two age groups of children (seven- and 14-year-olds). Participants completed the Perceptions of Children’s Rights Questionnaires and likelihood of reporting child abuse online. A within-groups four-factor anova examined differences between the perceptions participation and protection rights across the two age categories. Participants endorsed protection rights more than participation rights for both age groups and reported a higher endorsement of protection rights and a lower endorsement of participation rights for seven-year-olds compared with 14-year-olds. Participants were more likely to report the abuse of a seven-year-old compared with a 14-year-old, and participants’ endorsement of protection rights significantly predicted likelihood of reporting abuse. These findings have implications for how children’s rights are viewed in Irish society and how these rights may be enacted.

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