Championing Change: Children's Rights, Youth Participation, and Social Movements

Harvard FAS

This course examines the origins, evolution, implementation, backlash, and transformation of the children’s rights movement. We will discuss rights violations like child labor or child marriage, as well as positive rights, like the right to education and free expression. Students will learn about the complex social, political, economic, and cultural structures underpinning the fight for children’s rights, as well as the ways children’s rights have transformed these structures around the…