Children’s Experience, Participation, and Rights During COVID-19

Ruby Turok-Squire is studying for the Graduate Diploma in Law at City, University of London, UK. She previously completed an LLM in International Development Law and Human Rights at the University of Warwick, UK. In 2020, she co-organised an interdisciplinary conference entitled “Rainbows in Our Windows: Childhood in the Time of Corona”.

• 1. Introduction.- Section I: Good Childhoods.- 2. The Movement for Good Childhoods: How Can We Put Children at the Heart of Our National Life?.- 3. Children's Experiences of Pandemic Across Europe: Inequalities and the Potential of Participation.- Section II: Children's Rights.- 4. Children's Human Rights and COVID-19.- 5. Children's "Living Rights" in the COVID-19 Era.- 6. Children's Rights to be Heard and to be Seen: Child Protection in the UK in Response to the Pandemic Section III: Hungry for Change.- 7. "Hungry for Change": Why Living in a Pandemic Led Young People to Question Their Food System and Its Priorities.- 8. "Voiceless" and "Vulnerable": Challenging How Disabled Children and Young are Portrayed and Treated During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK.