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Esra Ercan Bilgiç – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
UN General Comment No. 25 (2021) emphasizes the importance of safeguarding children's rights in the digital sphere. However, in Turkey, media coverage often focuses on the negative aspects of the relationship between digital media and children, overshadowing opportunities, and rights. This study aims to analyze news articles focused on digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, News Reporting, Children, Mass Media Role
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Kinos, Jarmo; Robertson, Leena; Barbour, Nancy; Pukk, Maarika – Childhood Education, 2016
The Convention on the Rights of the Child calls for children to be treated as human beings with a distinct set of rights, instead of as passive objects of care. They can and should be agents in their own lives. Child-initiated pedagogy recognizes this by respecting children's individual and collective views, interests, and motivations.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Childrens Rights
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Nour, Osman El Hassan N. – International Review of Education, 2013
The notion of Child Friendly Cities (CFCs) was first developed during the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT II), held in Istanbul in 1996. The concept is based on four general principles of the United Nations "Convention on the rights of the child": (1) fair treatment of every child, regardless of ethnicity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Childrens Rights, Child Welfare
Ben Porath, Sigal R. – 2003
Legal and political theorists strive at expanding the scope of children's rights to cover further areas of their lives and choices. This paper suggests that this effort is misguided, and that the protection of children requires instituting adults' obligations, rather than broadening children's rights. Contrary to the common theoretical and…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Adults, Childhood Interests, Childhood Needs
Levy, David L., Ed. – Speak Out for Children, 2001
This document compiles the six issues of Volumes 15 and 16 of the "Speak Out for Children" newsletter, published to strengthen families through education and to assist children of unwed parents, separation, and divorce. The Spring 2000 issue contains articles on Wisconsin's shared parenting law, the U.S. Senate's consideration of a…
Descriptors: Child Custody, Childhood Interests, Children, Childrens Rights
Levy, David L., Ed. – Speak Out for children, 2000
This document comprises the three issues of Volume 14 of the "Speak Out for Children" newsletter, published to strengthen families through education and to assist children of unwed parents, separation, and divorce. The Spring 1999 issue contains articles on National Child's Day, joint custody presumptions, changes in children's life and…
Descriptors: Child Custody, Childhood Interests, Children, Childrens Rights