Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis

Rigmor Argren is a senior lecturer at Örebro University, Sweden. She holds a PhD and an LLM from Essex University, UK, and a MA in media and communications from Örebro University as well as a diploma in humanitarian leadership from the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership at Deakin University, Australia. She has formerly worked as Head of Surge Capacity Unit, Save the Children, Sweden. Her research focus is in the area of international humanitarian law and human rights law, often on topics such as freedom of information, right to information and gender issues. Jessica Jonsson is senior lecturer at Örebro University, Sweden. She holds an LLD (PhD Law) from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and an LLM (Master of Laws) from the European Academy of Legal Theory in Brussels, Belgium. She is the former Director of the Child Rights Academy, Sweden and prior to that was Head of Mission War Child Canada in Uganda. She has been part of the international humanitarian community for well over a decade, working mainly with the UN in Africa. Her research focus includes topics such as child rights in international criminal justice and refugees' and asylum seekers’ access to justice.

1. Introduction: Children’s Crisis Response in Need of Improvement 2. Promoting Children’s Rights to Participation in Humanitarian Crises 3. Making Children’s Right to Information Meaningful in Humanitarian Crises 4. Digitalising Children’s Humanitarian Access: A Way to Enhance Children’s Inclusion 5. Strengthening the Right to Education in Education in Emergencies: Normative Change in Humanitarian Responses to Children 6. The Right to Self-Determination and Participation for Refugee Children with Disabilities 7. The Child Right's Perspective in Response to the Humanitarian Crisis at the Belarus-Lithuania Border 8. Forced Migration, Gendered Violence and the Child Rights Perspective: Modalities of Violence against Marginalised Groups in Turkey 9. Child Rights Respect: Global Pandemics Call for Conscious Change 10. Concluding Remarks: Where to Next – Closing Gaps