Child Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from Child Health-and-Rights Professionals across the World.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of a child rights-based approach to policymaking and crisis management. Anchored in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the 3P framework-provision, protection, and participation-forms the foundation for health professionals advocating for children's rights. Expanding it with two additional domains-preparation and power-into a 5P framework has the potential to enhance child rights-based policies in times of crisis and future pandemics. The study aimed to (1) gather perspectives from child health-and-rights specialists on how children's rights were highlighted during the early phase of the pandemic in their respective settings; and (2) evaluate the usefulness of the 5P framework in assessing children's visibility and righ

SUBMITTER: Jorgensen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10605735 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature