Children’s Participation in Family Law Proceedings Research
A research project to explore how children’s rights are respected in law across the different countries who are members of the ChildWatch International Research Group
Childrens participation from tokenism to citizenship
A nation is democratic to the extent that its citizens are involved, particularly at the community level. The confidence and competence to be involved must be gradually acquired through practice.
Voice is not enough: conceptualising article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
This article provides a children’s rights critique of the concept of ‘pupil voice’. The analysis is founded on Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which gives children the right to have their views given due weight.
Promoting the participation of children in decisions that affect them, Recommendation 1864
Recommendation by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to Member States, encouraging them to promote participation by children in decisions affecting them.
The role of independent human rights institutions, General Comment No. 2
General Comment published by the Committee on the Rights of the Child to encourage States parties to establish an independent human rights institution for the promotion and monitoring of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
General Measures of Implementation, General Comment No. 5
This General Comment outlines the general measures States parties must take to secure the full and effective implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Implementing Rights in Early Childhood, General Comment No. 7
This General Comment focuses on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the context of early childhood.
Children and International Human Rights Law: The Right of the Child to be Heard
The book explores the historical and theoretical background to Article Twelve of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and examines the various models of participation which have been created to facilitate a better understanding of this provision.
Children as citizens? International voices: Childwatch International Citizen Study Group
This book, published by Otago University Press, is an account of a Childwatch International collaborative international study about the meaning of citizenship to children – how they view their status and membership in society through notions of identity,