Youth & Children’s Rights

We follow and shape the debates about the need to increase young people’s access to their rights, highlight the current challenges for young people in accessing their rights, review the existing frameworks for ensuring the rights of young people, and critically engage with the rationale for an additional Convention on the Rights of Young People.

Our Published Articles

A youth rights convention, good idea or bad idea?

April 28, 2012 Youthpolicy Team

A Convention on the Rights of Young People: good idea or bad idea? We investigate.

The rationale for a Convention on the Rights of Young People has been increasingly discussed within the youth rights discourse in Europe, questioning the possibility of binding and non-binding instruments

August 28, 2011 Andreas Karsten

The revolt of the young: “The calls for change have decisively amplified tone, scale and intensity”

From revolutions and protests to riots and unrests: young people are taking their fight for the future to the streets. Intergenerational contracts have become obsolete, with many young people feeling