29 de novembro de 2010

Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (Brasil) em revisão para não discriminar crianças indígenas

Gilberto Costa
Repórter da Agência Brasil
O Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (ECA) que completa 21 anos em 2011 poderá ser reformado para não discriminar práticas de socialização das crianças indígenas. Um diagnóstico sobre a violação de direitos e a atual situação de crianças e adolescentes indígenas apontam que há diferenças de visão sobre o que é considerado violência e agressão contra as crianças.
Notícia completa: Agência Brasil

22 de novembro de 2010

Culturas Infantis e Culturas Juvenis: dos silêncios à sua polifonia

O dossiê Culturas Infantis e Culturas Juvenis reúne artigos de pesquisadores engajados na superação de abordagens da infância e da juventude focadas somente em perspectivas cronológicas que normatizam suas etapas, idades,/ou fases da vida. Os autores focalizam crianças e jovens como agentes, potentes e capazes de transformar e criar novas relações nas instituições educativas (Prefácio).

 

Revista Momento / Diálogos em Educação

Vol. 19, No 1 (2010) Publicação online

 

15 de novembro de 2010

LSE Research: Opportunities and Risks for Children Online

Interview with researchers



With 65% of Europeans now online (source: ITU, 19/10/10), what effect is this having on children? What type of material are children exposed to through the internet? How do online risks compare to offline risks?

Funded by the EC's Safer Internet Programme, Professor Sonia Livingstone, head of LSE's department of Media and Communications, led a survey of 23,420 children and their parents in 23 European countries to systematically investigate the opportunities and the risks children are exposed to online. Their results are published in the EU Kids Online report, Risks and Safety on the Internet, available at:
www.eukidsonline.net

9 de novembro de 2010

The rights of the child in the context of migration (report)





Study of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on challenges and best practices in the implementation of the international framework for the protection of the rights of the child in the context of migration.
This report seeks to set out the specific standards and principles that inform the international framework of protection of the rights of the child in the context of migration. It examines challenges in the practical  implementation of this framework, and notes some best practices in terms of legislation, jurisprudence and joint efforts at the bilateral, regional and international levels. The report ends with conclusions and recommendations which aim to strengthen the implementation of the international framework and better protect the rights of the child in the context of migration.
Complete report

8 de novembro de 2010

Children's experience of the Children Act 1989







By Roger Morgan,
Children's Rights Director for England.

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This article sets out the views and experience of children and young people on selected major aspects of their lives which are governed by provisions in the Children Act 1989. It draws on extensive statutory consultations with children in care, receiving children's social care services, or otherwise living away from home, carried out over the past eight years by the Children's Rights Director for England. (...)