On 6 March 2025, Child Rights Connect hosted a side event at the United Nations Human Rights Council titled “Launch of the Strategic Vision on Child Human Rights Defenders.” This high-level discussion brought together four Child Human Rights Defenders (CHRDs), civil society representatives, and government delegates to explore how to [...]
The Children's Advisory Team engaged with the Annual Day on the Rights of the Child held on 13 March 2025 at the United Nations Human Rights Council. Two child advisors, Layan and Sarah worked together to prepare a powerful statement, as this year’s theme focused on Early Childhood Development. Their [...]
During the 2024 Annual Meeting of UN Special Procedures, Child Rights Connect together with members delivered the following statement calling for a taskforce of interested mandate holders to develop a practical framework to implement the Secretary Guidance Note on Child Rights Mainstreaming: 30th Annual Meeting of Special Rapporteurs, Independent Experts [...]
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 [...]
