Life Under Coronavirus: Children’s Views on their Experiences of their Human Rights

Abstract Children have a right to their views sought and given due weight on all matters affecting them, including at times of emergency crisis. This article describes the process findings ground-breaking CovidUnder19 survey (“Life Under Coronavirus”) which was co-designed with children for children, capturing experiences over 26,000 in 137 countries as realisation human rights during first six months covid -19 pandemic. Key are discussed through lens crc ’ s four general principles, read alongside children’s rights, inter alia, education, play be protected from harm. It argues that governments public bodies should – not just because they were under an obligation do so but such engagement, now crises come, provides early warning system enables decision-makers mitigate some adverse consequences responses rights.