Denis, a child advisor at Child Rights Connect, participated in a side event at the 59th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which focused on 'Children's Voices on Free Pre-Primary and Secondary Education' and took place on Friday, 20 June. It was organised by the Permanent Mission of [...]
HOW TO CHILD RIGHTS is a platform that facilitates co-creation and peer learning on child rights in practice. It offers a series of practical, high quality, tried and tested tools, guidance and case studies and peer exchanges, to support effective and innovative programming – including advocacy – for children’s rights across the [...]
The world faces many intersecting crises. Children, who increasingly act as human rights defenders, are providing answers! Through our new global project, we will follow their lead and help advance their rights, empowerment, and protection. This will allow them to act as changemakers with fewer barriers, more safety, louder voice, [...]
On 12 March 2024 the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Ms Mary Lawlor presented the first ever UN report on child and youth defenders. Child Rights Connect worked closely with the Special Rapporteur to ensure that the consultation and participation of child human rights defenders (CHRDs) [...]
The long-awaited Law on Children’s Rights of the Republic of Moldova entered into force on 21 December 2023[1]. Child Rights Connect with its partner organisation the Child Rights Information Center (CRIC), as part of the project “Advancing the rights, empowerment and protection of child human rights defenders (CHRDs) in promoting human [...]
At the end of 2023, Child Rights Connect and Terre des Hommes International sent a written submission for the Zero Draft for the Pact and the Summit of the Future. The Pact for the Future is an action-oriented outcome document helping to achieve the two main goals of the Summit [...]
Amidst some disagreement over language, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted by consensus the Resolution on the Rights of the Child in the digital environment in November 2023. Worldwide, around 2.2 billion children and young people, especially girls and adolescents, are disproportionately impacted by the digital society in which we [...]
