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Child and youth friendly justice for the climate crisis: relying on the UN convention on the rights of the child
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2024) Daly, Aoife; Horizon 2020
The climate crisis is a human rights crisis, and one of the worst affected groups is children and youth. This same group has been key to climate action in and outside of the courts. As well as engaging in numerous consultative fora such as cop, and in the introduction of a General Comment on the right of children to a healthy environment, they have gone on to become key litigators in climate cases/applications at both national and international level. These justice processes are, however, notoriously ill suited to the particular needs of children and youth. Child friendly justice is a concept which has been elaborated in recent years by the Council of Europe. Yet climate litigation is very different to the cases (e.g. in family law) in which children have traditionally been parties – amongst other things it can involve very public campaigns. This article considers child and youth friendly justice in the context of the climate crisis through the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and through the concepts of access, participation, interests, and judgments.
Climate action and the uncrc: a “postpaternalist” world where children claim their own rights
(MDPI, 2024) Daly, Aoife; Maharjan, Nabin; Montesinos Calvo-Fernández, Esther; Muller, Liesl Heila; Murray, Emily Margaret; O’Sullivan, Alicia; Paz Landeira, Florencia; Reid, Katie; European Research Council; Horizon 2020
In this paper, it is argued that we are in a ‘postpaternalist’ era for children’s rights, involving grassroots action from children (for the first time, on a global scale) rather than well-meaning adults ‘giving’ children their rights. Child/youth climate action has involved under-18s acting for the environment through grassroots protest, media work and lobbying. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has arguably to date been approached in a paternalist way, whereby children need adults to help them to access rights. Yet, child/youth climate advocates have taken their own action, and demand equality as they enter rights spaces. They are frequently working with adults as equals and allies in litigating climate cases, for example. It is argued that (although there are rights challenges in a postpaternalist time) these young rights leaders have transformed human rights for the better, and adults should facilitate their work in a way that is child- and youth-friendly.
Care-full academia: From autoethnographic narratives to political manifestos for collective action
(Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education, the Pathways and Academic Learning Support Centre at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the Centre for Education Research on Identities and Inequalities at Anglia Ruskin University, UK., 2024) MagShamhráin, Rachel
Building on sociolinguistic analyses of the speech-act of coming out in relation to sexual or gender identity (for example, Livia & Hall 1997) which explored the identity-declaring and identity-making aspects and the consequences of such an utterance, this paper examines the speech act of ‘coming out as a carer’ within the academy, whereby workers declare to their professional community that those acts of care which are generally relegated to the private sphere have a bearing on their professional performances. This illocutionary act of self-definition, which radically and problematically breaches the fourth wall of the private-public divide at work, has several important consequences both negative and positive, for the individual carer but also potentially for the institution and its practices. As in the case of coming out in terms of sexuality or gender, this paper takes the position that such illocutionary acts ‘have the potential force of altering reality for both the speaker and the listener’ (Chirrey 2003). In other words, they have perlocutionary effect.
Applying a composite indoor environmental quality indicator to Danish office spaces: The TAIL rating scheme
(AIVC (Air infiltration and Ventilation Centre), 2024) Mishra , Asit K.; Pharaon, Dania T.; Feldskou, Ida B.; Præstegaard, Lina F.; Wargocki , Pawel; Horizon 2020
A composite rating scheme for indoor environmental quality (IEQ) can help provide a summary picture of buildings for occupants, inform the building managers regarding IEQ performance that need attention, and raise awareness on regarding the importance of IEQ parameters. The TAIL IEQ rating scheme has been designed to communicate such aspects in a simple, easy to use manner.
Thermal comfort of adolescent children in classrooms: Some reflections on the state-of-the-art
(AIVC (Air infiltration and Ventilation Centre), 2024) Mishra, Asit K.; Wargocki, Pawel; O’Reilly , Eilis J.; Horizon 2020
Thermal comfort of adolescents (10-17 year olds) in school classrooms is an important but less explored topic. The classroom thermal environment impacts students comfort, learning, and health. Due to differences related to physiology and ability to influence their environments, children’s thermal comfort needs and even their interpretation of thermal comfort differs from adults. Based on an overview of the current thermal comfort databases, we advocate that there is an urgent need for studies, spread across different climatic regions, examining classroom comfort for young children. The impact of climate change further drives this urgency.