Meet our Children’s Advisory Team
Young advocates from around the world shaping international policy for children’s rights
What is the Children’s Advisory Team?
Child Rights Connect’s Children’s Advisory Team (CAT) is a global team of child human rights defenders who support Child Rights Connect to shape and take forward activities on children’s rights.
The CAT is part of the structure of Child Rights Connect and renews its mandate regularly.
When was the Children’s Advisory Team created?
The first organisational Child Rights Connect Children’s Advisory Team was created and began its activities in February 2020.
Child Rights Connect has created and supported Children’s Advisory Teams in the past, and we have built on the experiences and lessons learned from outgoing Child Advisors!
Some examples of our work in the past is that Child Rights Connect first supported a Children’s Advisory Team of 21 child advisors to be at the core of its activities for the 2018 UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Day of General Discussion (DGD) on Protecting and Empowering Children as Human Rights Defenders. You can find out more about that here!
It then supported a global Children’s Advisory Team of 9 child advisors in the development of UNICEF’s official child-friendly UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Take a look for more information here!
Who is on the Team?
Meet our 2025 CAT !
If you want to get to know the 17 current child advisors better, click here.
We developed a child advisor selection process with our outgoing child advisors which you can read here- EN | FR | ES to ensure inclusivity, diversity and fairness. New child advisors will be selected every other year.
Each child advisor has a supporting organisation – you can read the Terms of Reference for the supporting organisations here – EN | FR | ES
The CAT developed and adopted its own Charter, you can read it here.
Putting Priorities into Action
The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989 and known as the “Constitution of the Child,” lays the legal foundation for protecting children’s rights around the world. Click on the thumbnails below to see what our CAT Team has been doing to put these priorities into action.
Respect for Children’s Views
Environmental Rights
Social Rights
Right to Education
Children in Armed Conflict
Protection from Violence
Right to Health
What our CAT has been working on recently
On the right to health and physical shape
Ten million thousand years ago, some chimpanzee found himself in the need to stand on his own feet, just so he could have a small chance of surviving to the possible predators around. This event [...]
Publications the Child Advisors have helped develop
A report about Children’s Vision for Human Rights! Have a read here in English.
The CAT was consulted to provide feedback on the Child-Friendly version of the 2023 Report to the Human Rights Council on child rights & inclusive social protection! Have a read here!
The CAT was consulted to provide feedback on the Child-Friendly version of the United Nation’s Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment N.26! Have a read here!
A child-friendly Guide on the rights of child human rights defenders plus lots of other resources for CHRDs! Access here!
In progress… Participation in the Child Rights Mainstreaming process & Development of child-friendly version of UN Guidance Note on Child Right Mainstreaming
