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Govind Subedi; Sally Atkinson-Sheppard; Vinay Jha – Global Studies of Childhood, 2025
The article considers street-connected children and their right to play. By drawing on a qualitative case study involving interviews and focus groups with NGO workers and children who lived on the streets in the Kathmandu valley, this article explores play, its role in children's lives and the applicability of the UNCRC Article 31. We argue that…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Play, Foreign Countries, Homeless People
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Carol Mutch – Global Studies of Childhood, 2025
In times of disasters and adversity, children are among the most vulnerable. The "United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child" (1989) highlights the importance of protecting children from harm and making decisions in their best interests--matters that become heightened in an adverse context. From 2020 to 2023, the government of…
Descriptors: Caring, Educational Practices, Childrens Rights, COVID-19
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Iris Duhn – Global Studies of Childhood, 2025
This article delves into the intricate relationship between children's rights and the broader landscape of human and more-than-human rights in times of planetary pluri-crises. While acknowledging the historical significance of the United Nation adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) as a late 20th-century milestone, this…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Climate, Children, Foreign Countries
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Magnone, Soledad – Global Studies of Childhood, 2021
By 2015, one-third of internet users around the world were under the age of 18, almost half of which were living in the so-called 'Global South'. In light of this, literature from the field of children's online rights has become increasingly critical of the lack of engagement in internet governance discussions globally with the United Nations (UN)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Rights, Children, Treaties
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Gaches, Sonya – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
Since the advent of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), concerns have been raised regarding tokenistic engagement with children's participation rights as well as ethical considerations that must be addressed in research with children. This article explores how one particular ethical dilemma regarding representation…
Descriptors: Ethics, Childrens Rights, Children, Treaties
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Sakr, Naomi – Global Studies of Childhood, 2016
In theory, the multiple platforms and transnational nature of digital media, along with a related proliferation of diverse forms of content, make it easier for children's right to access socially and culturally beneficial information and material to be realised, as required by Article 17 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Access to Information, Arabs, Treaties