In March 2016 the Council of Europe adopted its latest Children’s Rights Strategy (2016-2021). Focusing on a brand new set of priority areas, this Strategy is currently the only strategic document on children’s rights since...Read more
At the recent Urban Thinkers’ Campus in Alghero, Italy, children were championed by a small group of protagonists who highlighted their rights as city-dwellers in a special exhibit: “[The art of] Reconquering public space by...Read more
|Comment|author: TaMaLaCa - Interdisciplinary research group
In western Canada, over 3,000 children in the City of Richmond have contributed to a Children’s Charter that has been endorsed by the Mayor and City Council, resulting in the Charter being imbedded into the...Read more
The 28 Urban Thinkers’ Campuses, taking place worldwide between June 2015 and February 2016, aim to solicit inputs into the New Urban Agenda – the main outcome document of the Habitat III conference to be...Read more
|Comment|author: TaMaLaCa - Interdisciplinary research group
1 in 20 children aged 14 years old or younger live with a form of disability, either moderate or severe, according to UNICEF. Such figures raise questions as to whether the majority of the existing...Read more
The liberation park in Groningen, the Netherlands, consists of 30,000 maple trees of five different variants. The trees were a ‘gift’ from the Canadian liberators after World War 2.
Running along an educational path, are...Read more
KidsRights, the international children’s rights foundation has published its 2015 index, which it claims shows that all 165 countries analysed need to do more to protect children’s rights.
On 19 October, the KidsRights Index 2015 was...Read more
Policy for Play – responding to children’s forgotten right
by Adrian Voce, is to be published by Policy Press on 28 October 2015.
Examining government responsibilities for children’s play under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child...Read more