ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the right to participation of young girls at risk in care and supervision proceedings held in youth court in Israel, in the framework of the practices used in these proceedings, in order to understand in depth the gaps existing in this area, between law in books and law in action. It analyzes the right to participation as guaranteed in the CRC and its implementation in Israeli law. The author critically analyzes the Youth law (care and supervision) and the obligations of Guardian ad litem from it. Also, the chapter overviews intersectionality theory and the implication of staying in a locked residential care on young girls at risk. The author interviewed young girls in a locked residential care and through analysis of the interviews, she suggests that we need to think of the right to participation as a life skill that young girls at risk need to be taught for them to be able to affirm this right.
