Child Rights Connect webpage dedicated to COVID-19 responses
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is having a major impact on the lives of children and families. Given the large amount of resources developed by different organizations, at Child Rights Connect we want to help you in your search for information. For this purpose, we have pulled together resources from our members and partners, as well as some relevant press releases and statements on the topic and divided them into different sections. We seek to provide clarity by offering an overview of the responses to the disease by various organizations. We hope this will help civil society and the general public to quickly review information that is of interest. We will be updating the webpage regularly as the crisis unfolds.
Child Rights Connect staff in Geneva is working from home following the Swiss government guidelines. You can reach us via email.
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For the first time ever, children will inform the development (and implementation) of a new law on the protection of human rights defenders! This is our project in Moldova.
Thanks to new project funding from the Ville de Genève as well as on-going financial support from the Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (Sida), we are about to step up our action in Moldova, in collaboration with our long-time [...]
Support children to share their views with the UN Human Rights Office on inclusive social protection!
The UN Human Rights Office is writing a report to the Human Rights Council on inclusive social protection. They want to hear from children worldwide about their views and recommendations on this important subject! 🔈 Are you in contact with groups [...]
CRC session 92
At the 92nd CRC session opening, for the second time, children have addressed the Committee at the session opening! A member of the General Comment 26 Children’s Advisory Team delivered a speech, followed by a video message from other GC26 [...]
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights updates children on the status of their General Comment on Sustainable Development
Check out the videos to learn about the main takeaways from the consultations with children! On 5th and 6th of April 2022, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights held three Consultations with children coming from [...]
Civil society and children contributed to shaping the draft UN Guidance Note on Child Rights Mainstreaming!
For the first time ever, the UN as a system is making an assessment of how it integrates child rights into its work. The Secretary-General has committed to develop a UN Guidance Note on Child Rights Mainstreaming to provide practical [...]
Spread the word about our new #ChildrenStandUp4HumanRights appeal !
We have just launched our new campaign #ChildrenStandUp4HumanRights: Follow their lead! to garner support for our child advisors to take forward their own national awareness-raising and advocacy campaigns in the context of the 25th anniversary of the UN Declaration [...]
Our child advisors and mentors inform upcoming report of Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders on positive change
You can read the full submission from Child Rights Connect and its Children’s Advisory Team (CAT) and Mentor Group here. 7 of the current and former members of Child Rights Connect’s Children's Advisory Team recently shared case studies to [...]
Joint civil society statement on Secretary-General’s fourth biennial report on the status of the treaty body system
At the UN General Assembly, TB-Net and other organisations (including Amnesty International, the Geneva Human Rights Platform (Geneva Academy), the International Service for Human Rights, and the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights), raised the need to [...]
Saving the planet is saving children: Voices of Children for COP27 and beyond
“I want to see my land smiling. I want to see it’s revived beauty I want to see the areas affected from deforestation filled with trees. I want everyone to inhale fresh air. I want fresh water for everyone I [...]
Landmark CRC Concluding Observations on Child Human Rights Defenders linked to freedom of expression!
In September 2022, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (the Committee) held its 91st Session and adopted recommendations for the State parties under review. For the first time, the Committee adopted a landmark recommendation on child human [...]
This page responds to the child advisors’ call for a platform to monitor the follow-up to the Day of General Discussion (DGD) on Protecting and Empowering Children as Human Rights defenders. It showcases direct follow-up activities to the 2018 DGD as well as examples of the different ways in which the global movement for children human rights defenders is growing at different levels and in many different forms.
