Child rights and the climate strike movement

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English - April 21, 2021 13:00 - 12 minutes - 8.46 MB
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Since its adoption in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has become the most widely ratified treaty in history. One of the underlying principles enshrined throughout the Convention is adult respect for children’s views.

Professor Richard Mitchell argues the climate strikes and political activism inspired by Greta Thunberg, Autumn Peltier, and Salvador Gómez-Colón among others, represents an unprecedented human rights-based phenomenon, and one that emphasises millions of young women in leadership roles.

Hear more about his research here, and read the original article at:
https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2019.1698235