This book demonstrates how a focus on children's rights can help
practitioners to safeguard children during humanitarian crisis.
Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis focuses on understanding and
advancing child rights through practical applications of a child rights
perspective in crisis response. The book establishes that with
accessible, child-friendly participatory means, crisis response can
improve from a child rights perspective and even advance children's
rights whilst also supporting and furthering the development of a
child's agency. The volume presents the reader with a clear focus on
children from a range of backgrounds, including those most marginalised,
such as children with disabilities. Drawing on expertise from the field
as well as academia, and providing practical examples which link case
studies to legal policies in recent and protracted humanitarian
responses, such as in Turkey and at the Lithuania-Belarus border, this
book is a treasure trove of advice from some of the humanitarian and
development sector's most experienced professionals.
Combining insights from both research and practice, this book will be an
essential read for humanitarian students and practitioners.