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Yazarlar: Francesco TONUCCİ

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Children’s Rights,Participation,Autonomy of Movement,Urban Safety,Public Space

Özet: Emancipating means freeing, granting autonomy. In the modern city, which has developed to accommodate adult citizens and their cars, children have lost the ability to move autonomously and they are not recognized as citizens, but rather only as future citizens, in need of care and protection. In light of adults’ inadequacies and the ‘mess’ they are making in today’s world, the City of Girls and Boys project calls for real emancipation for children, inviting them to participate in governing their cities and giving them back the ability to move autonomously in the city’s public spaces. The aim of the project is to apply in full the Convention on the Rights of the Child approved by the United Nations in 1989 and to date, unfamiliar to most and yet to be implemented practically everywhere. The article concludes with some examples of how children’s specific proposals can substantially alter the politics of our cities.

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