Voice or Voice-Over?: Harnessing the Relationship between a Child’s Right to Be Heard and Legal Agency through Norwegian Bullying Cases

This article offers an analysis of the child’s right to be heard under Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its application in Norway, through a case study of bullying. The methodology combines a "top-down" legal interpretation of Article 12 in addition to an analysi...

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Published in:Social Inclusion
Main Author: Clark, Sevda (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cogitatio Press 2017
In: Social Inclusion
Further subjects:B Bullying
B legal agency
B Ombudsman
B right to be heard
B child rights
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