Children’s Views on Children’s Rights: A Systematic Literature Review

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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

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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.