COVID-19 Pandemi Sürecinde Türkiye'de Çocuk Hakları

Abstract

This study aims to emphasize the importance of considering children's rights in the social structure, especially in the family, during the Covid-19 pandemic process. Learning-teaching environments, which are new for children, parents and educators, distance education practices, and precautionary restrictions during the pandemic process cause stress on individuals and cause child abuse in the family. Although distance education applications are found useful and convenient in terms of protecting children from diseases and dangers and meeting their right to life and development, they cause violations of rights and some developmental problems for children who cannot access online courses. The near-future developmental consequences of social isolation, which is one of the measures taken during the pandemic process, especially when pre-school children's physical activities (the right to play) and their ability to socialize with their peers are examined in different studies. In this context, this study is a compilation that aims to examine children's rights in Turkey, based on the results of current research and reports, based on the four basic principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, within the framework of the measures taken and practices developed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Keywords: Children’s Rights, Pandemic Covid-19, Family, Social Isolation, Preschool Children.