UN Convention on the Rights of the Childchildren and young people’s participationCOVID-19The COVID-19 pandemic has spread to more than 200 countries and territories, despite governments' efforts to 'flatten the curve'. The measures to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak have been perceived as ...
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international agreement which over 190 countries throughout the world have signed. When a government signs the Convention, they are making a ‘promise’ to children and young people up to the age of 18yrs. This promise means that...
This article considers the effects of this disruption, and how we could work beyond contemporary paternalistic approaches to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, examining intergenerational dynamics in this postpaternalist climate context. Child and youth climate advocates are, unprompted by ...