What is it about?
Children have the right to participate actively in social life. This right protects against marginalization and exclusion. Children who perceive discrimination in their environment assign greater value to their participation rights than do children who do not perceive such discrimination. This is because participation rights guarantee that children who feel discriminated against will be protected against social exclusion and fully able to participate socially.
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Why is it important?
Participation is a fundamental human right. This right is particularly important to children who are discriminated against. Thus, policymakers, teachers, and other professionals should implement participation rights to such an extent that all children, including those who experience discrimination and are therefore at risk of being marginalized, will be able to claim their participation rights to the full extent and in all circumstances.
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The Convention on the Rights of the Child brought the imperative for protecting, respecting, and fulfilling the participation rights of every child to a global scale. Empirical evidence now shows that these rights are particularly important to children who are discriminated against.
Kaspar Burger
Universitat Zurich
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This page is a summary of: The subjective importance of children’s participation rights: A discrimination perspective., American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, July 2018, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/ort0000343.
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