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: 3 minutesAuthors: Kay Tisdall, University of Edinburgh; and Patricio Cuevas-Parra, World Vision International. As childhood researchers and policy experts, we come from a children’s human rights perspective with an extensive interest in supporting children and young people’s participation. For years, we have been exploring the implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights […]