Children’s Views on Children’s Rights: A Systematic Literature Review
Recorded in 2021
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Contributors
Author: Nicola Fairhall, Kevin Woods
Publisher: The International Journal of Children’s Rights
Date: 2021
Geographic Coverage: Worldwide
Type of Resource: Review
Sector/setting: Other
Vulnerable groups: Children, Young People
Developed with children and young people? Not specified
Type of participation: Journal
Availability: Open Access
Keywords: Children’s Rights, Children’s views, Review, UNCRC
Introduction
Children’s rights are set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This systematic literature review aimed to investigate children’s views of children’s rights, at a broad level. Nine papers were included, from a range of countries and contexts. They all accessed the views of children and young people (aged up to 18 years). A content analysis was carried out using a recursive process of hybrid aggregative-configurative synthesis, and themes within children’s views and factors that may affect these were identified. These were ‘awareness of rights’, ‘value placed on (importance of) rights’, ‘impact of having/not having rights fulfilled’, ‘realisation and respect of rights’, ‘equality of rights’, ‘identifying and categorising of rights’, and ‘factors that may affect children’s views’. These were developed into a progression of rights realisation and implications for practice and further research were considered.