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What is UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Chapter 20
Handbook of Research on Policies, Protocols, and Practices for Social Work in the Digital World
The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was unanimously adopted in 1989, bringing with it a new philosophy and understanding of the protection, development, and fundamental rights of each child as a rightful individual. According to the convention, people under the age of 18 have these rights, regardless of race, religion, or abilities, regardless of their opinions or statements and whatever family they come from. This convention imposes various obligations on individuals and states to protect and improve the human rights of all children. This contract was also signed by Turkey in 1990 and entered into force in 1995.
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Representation of Syrian Children in Turkish Media From a Child-Oriented Rights Journalism Perspective
Aslıhan Ardıç Çobaner (Mersin University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7772-1.ch020
Abstract
The starting point of this study is to reveal how Syrian children, who are still experiencing a vexed problem in Turkey and are thought to affect our immediate future, are represented in the newspapers. The most frequently used themes were identified in the news through qualitative content analysis, and by means of discourse analysis method, it was aimed to reveal the representations produced through discourses. The subject has been discussed from an interdisciplinary and critical perspective. It was an important finding in the news about these children that there is a lack of emphasis concerning children's rights and the perspective of children's rights which was stated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), to which Turkey is a party. Although the lack of a rights-based perspective in the news in the study is notable, journalism guidelines respecting children's rights should be the basic principle in preparing news about children in general and Syrian children in particular.
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