Reading Time: 6 minutesChildren’s climate litigation has boomed in the last 10 years. According to the University College Cork Youth Climate Justice project’s case law database, approximately 81 climate cases have been launched by children and youth, or on their behalf, in countries all over the world in the past decade. These cases include child applicants as young as 7 years and under, but the majority fall within the 13 to 18 years range.[1] They often act alongside young adults up to age 25, and some of them reach adulthood while the case is pending, thus the term child/youth-involved climate litigation.

Reading Time: 3 minutesA few months ago, I released my recent book Children’s Participation in the Context of Inequalities: Confronting Children’s Agency, Social Positioning and Power Disparities. In this work, I examine how inequalities and social identities influence the operationalisation of children’s and young people’s participation rights. Children’s social positioning remains subordinated to multiple systems of domination, including patriarchy, colonialism, racism, and intergenerational power relations.

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are thrilled to announce the launch of a new Children & Society special issue, ‘Conceptualising and Researching Child and Youth Activism’. The collection seeks ‘to provide a platform for the range of child and youth activism emerging globally and the participatory methods that contribute to these movements’.

Reading Time: 4 minutesI shared a snapshot of my PhD research project and some emergent findings around the skills, knowledge and values young people conceptualised as key in an informal civic education organisation case study.