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27 Int'l J. Child. Rts. 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/intjchrb27 and id is 1 raw text is: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS BRILL 27 (2019) 1-2 NIJHOFF brill.com/chil Editorial This year marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The challenges facing children around the world are not only widespread and significant but crying out for robust research which analyses and elucidates the Convention and children's experi- ence of their rights. This issue contains articles that explore two particularly egregious breaches of children's rights. Rose Barrett opens the issue with a ro- bust moral and legal critique of the use of lethal force against child soldiers, arguing that targeting them in conflict wrongly assumes that they are partici- pating voluntarily and breaches their right to life. Leyla Obreja explores legal protections of children in situations of intimate partner violence, an experi- ence that is all too common for children yet one where their experiences and rights are often overshadowed by those of adults. It is also ten years since the Committee on the Rights of the Child published General Comment No. 12 on the Child's Right to be Heard. This authoritative guidance reinforces the significance of Article 12 of the Convention for the re- alization of all other children's human rights. It also emphasizes the need for research that engages with children themselves as key meaning makers in their own lives. This issue of IJCR is replete with studies that focus on the realities of children's right to be heard across continents and contexts. The disciplinary perspectives and areas of children's lives explored in these papers are very dif- ferent (they cover education, children's services and the courts). Yet, common messages emerge about the struggle that children still face in attempting to both express their views and have them taken seriously. That said, the articles in this issue suggest that, ten years on, there is room for optimism. The papers highlight laws and practices across the world that enrich our knowledge and understanding of Article 12 and participation generally: see, for instance the innovative model of Voice Inclusive Practice proposed by Sargeant and Gillett- Swan and the views of indigenous children in Australia about how govern- ments should engage with them captured by Holly Doel-Mackaway. From a research perspective, it is gratifying to see the rich range of meth- odological approaches adopted across the various studies. From comparative @ KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2019 DOI 10.1163/15718182-02701010

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