scholarly journals Commentary on R (on the Application of Begum) v Head-teacher and Governors of Denbigh High School [2006] UKHL 15

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuno Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Head Teacher ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Cultural Variables ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Economic Background ◽  
The Way

It is more than 10 years since the decision of the House of Lords (HL, as it was then) in Begum, but it remains as contentious and relevant as ever. In Begum, religion, age, gender, culture, and socio-economic background conflate, raising issues of equality, tolerance, autonomy, diversity, and respect. The decision alerts us to the way in which a range of socio-cultural variables affect children’s lives. This commentary discusses the significance of this decision and how this decision could have been more compelling from a children's rights perspective.

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.

scholarly journals Infancy Online: An Introduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630511770719
Author(s):  
Tama Leaver ◽  
Bjorn Nansen
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Infants And Young Children ◽  
The Way

This article introduces a Special Issue on the topic of infancy online, addressing a range of issues, including representation, privacy, datafication, and children’s rights. The 7 articles included map important arenas of emerging research which highlight a range of increasingly urgent questions around the way infants are situated online, the longer term ramifications of infant online presences, and the ways in which infants and young children participate as users of online media.

Coercion or caring: analysing adolescent autonomy

Legal Studies ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Brazier ◽  
Caroline Bridge
Keyword(s):  
Health Authority ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Older Children ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Adolescent Autonomy ◽  
Court Of Appeal ◽  
Area Health ◽  
Older Child

The judgment of the House of Lords in Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority appeared to usher in an era ofjudicial respect for children's rights and the autonomy of the older child. Just a decade later the decisions of the Court of Appeal in Re R and Re W were perceived as signalling a reversion to judicial paternalism and dealing a near fatal blow to adolescent autonomy. The fundamental philosophy of the Children Act 1989 itself, in which the wishes of children and the ‘rights’ of the more mature minor play such a central part, came under attack in a continuing series of cases at first instance where judges overruled the judgments of older children in favour of the judgment of their doctors.

scholarly journals Flogging Children with Religion: A Comment on the House of Lords' Decision in Williamson

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (38) ◽  
pp. 339-345
Author(s):  
Sylvie Langlaude
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Parental Rights ◽  
European Court ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Education And Employment

On 24 February 2005 the House of Lords delivered a significant judgment on freedom of religion, parental rights to religious freedom, corporal punishment and children's rights. This paper examines R (Williamson) v Secretary of State for Education and Employment. It argues that the House of Lords adopts a much more generous approach to freedom of religion or belief than the European Court of Human Rights. But it is also critical of the argument derived from children's rights.

scholarly journals Children’s Rights as Living Rights

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 803-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward van Daalen ◽  
Karl Hanson ◽  
Olga Nieuwenhuys
Keyword(s):  
Street Children ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Social World ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

In this article we propose the notion of living rights to highlight that children, whilst making use of notions of rights, shape what these rights are, and become, in the social world. Emphasising children’s agency in living with and through their rights facilitates empirical enquiry, and moves the vectors of the debate on what children’s rights are to the interplay between how children understand their rights and the way others translate and make use of rights claims on children’s behalf. The argument builds upon a case study in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where street children, claiming the right to safely live and work on the streets, were involved in a successful campaign against an anti-vagrancy draft law. However, the subsequent new legislation – although in line with international children’s rights standards – ignored their claims and offers little for those street children who do not want to be “rescued”.

Creating and evaluating transition from primary to high school utilising children’s rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Nicola Fairhall ◽  
Kevin Woods ◽  
Phil Trohear ◽  
Sue Duffy ◽  
Matthew Sandiford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights

Armed conflict and children's rights.

1997 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 1385-1386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Wessells
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights
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