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64 Hung. J. Legal Stud. 1 (2023)

handle is hein.journals/ajur64 and id is 1 raw text is: Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies 64 (2023) 1, 1-3 DOI: 10.1556/2052.2023.00002 mD ED6 Editorial: Challenges of children's rights AGNES LUX' and REFIA KAYA2 HUN-REN, Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest, Hungary 2 Faculty of Law, Hacettepe University, Turkey INTRODUCTION © 2023 Akad6miai Kiad6, Budapest Children's rights and related socio-legal issues have become a quite complex and far-reaching agenda for the international community. The most concerning issues, such as the phenomena of child poverty and other forms of deprivation, child labour, global violence against children, the situation of children living with disabilities or with special needs in care, or the burning problems of juvenile delinquency need a multidisciplinary approach at a theoretical as well as a practical level. Having only emerged in the 1920s in modern legal and political discourse, the field of children's rights is a quite young one, with no autonomous branch of law to cover it. Children's rights not only affect various fields of law, including civil law,' criminal law2 and administrative law,3 but also appear within the scope of constitutional law4 and international law.5 There is no uniform code of law for children's rights, either. The main source is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC), adopted in 1989. The fundamental principle, on the one hand, is based on the human rights approach, which has now become an unquestionable paradigm. This says that children are entitled to the same rights as the adults, as the former are human beings, too. On the other hand, they are in need of particular protec- tion and support due to their special socio-legal status and age. Such protection and support is to be provided by their caretakers, and ultimately by the state. Consequently, children's rights make their appearance in a number of social and legal relationships. Due to their vulnerability and * Corresponding author. E-mail: Lux.Agnes@tk.hu 'On child custody, see Woodhouse (1999), and Schrama et al. (2021) on child participation in family law. 2On criminal accountability and children's rights, see Arts and Popovski (2006) and Cipriani (2016), or Linch (2010) on child-focused restorative justice, and Sloth-Nielsen (2003) and Pare et al. (2022) on children's access to justice. 3On the best interests of the child principle in administrative law procedures, see Veselov (2020). 4On children's constitutional protection, see O'Mahony (2019) and Nylund (2019). 50n international law perspectives, see, for example, Pupavac (2002) and Butler (2012) or van Bueren (2021).

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