We chose the topic of our fourth Curated series to elevate awareness of children’s rights related issues in the SEE region and the importance of preparedness to overcome them, fostering across the GC network the sense of a joint effort advocating for sustainable change in the service of children.
The seven blog posts, written by researchers from SEE, reflect legal and social challenges that children are currently facing in the region, from country-specific to more region-wide examples, each covering different spheres of children’s rights.
Every Monday over the coming weeks of September and October there will be a post addressing core aspects of these issues. They concern the corporal punishment of children, the marketing practices towards children in the digital era, the phenomenon of cyberbullying, child labour among unaccompanied children on the move, Roma children’s right to education, and entitlement issues concerning free school meals.
In this context, particular attention is devoted to a range of rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, such as the right to life, survival, and development (Article 6), the right to protection from all forms of violence (Article 19), the right to privacy (Article 16), freedom of expression and thought (Articles 13 and 14), the right to access to media from a diversity of services (Article 17), the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation (Article 32), the right to education (Article 28), and the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child’s physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development (Article 27).
The contributors to this new Curated section include Milena Blagojević, Xheni Alla, Mediha Arnaut Smajlović, Maja Šenk, Violeta Marković, Anida Gjurgjiali and Tamara Zrnić.
