Day of General Discussion "Protecting & Empowering Children as Human Rights Defenders"
2018-09-28 10:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Palais des Nations, Room XVII, Palais des Nations, Geneva, 1211, Switzerland
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Child Rights Connect General Assembly
2019-05-09 - 2019-05-10

Study on the global status of engagement in CRC reporting
2019-05-09 - 2019-05-10
Child Rights Connect is facilitating strategic and critical reflections about challenges and achievements of civil society child rights advocacy and engagement with the CRC Committee by:
– developing a study on the global status of the engagement of States, NGOs and children in the CRC reporting process to highlight gaps and the current outlook of the child rights advocacy movement;
– organising a stock-take exercise with members and key partners to discuss the findings of the study and new joint strategies to be more effective.

Child Rights Connect Public Reception
2019-05-09 18:00 - 20:00

Strategic litigation before the UN: a tool for social and legal change
2019-05-28 12:30 - 14:00
Join us, in person or online, for a Presentation by partners Litigating cases of Girls victims of Sexual Violence and Forced Pregnancies at the UN treaty bodies, including the CRC
Global Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights together with in-country partners, will be presenting cases being submitted to the UN treaty bodies, including the Committee on the Rights of the Child involving girls victims of sexual violence who were forced to carry their pregnancies to term in several Latin American countries. The case brought before the CRC will be the first time the Committee will have to pronounce itself through an individual communication on the public health problem of forced pregnancies which violates girls’ right to health; education; and information, among others;
The event will also be an opportunity to hear first-hand about the litigation strategy and why for example the case presented to the Committee on the Rights of the Child was not instead submitted to the CEDAW or a regional human rights court.

Promoting a Safe and Empowering Environment for All Children and Youth
2019-09-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Palais des Nations (Room XXII), Geneva, Switzerland
Human Rights Council 42nd session side event on “Promoting a Safe and Empowering Environment for All Children and Youth”!
We are happy to share with you the Flyer to the side event on “Promoting a Safe and Empowering Environment for All Children and Youth – Best practices for child and youth protection and participation through human rights education“, organized by IIMA, VIDES International and the UN Permanent Mission of the Philippines and co-sponsored by Child Rights Connect to take place on Wednesday, September 25 (2-3:30 pm), in Palais des Nations, room XXII.
This side event will be an opportunity to share best practices for child and youth protection and participation through human rights education.

Virtual Side Event on a Child Rights Approach to the LBI Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights
2020-10-21 13:00 - 14:30
Business activities and enterprises significantly affect children in all aspects of their lives. As the Committee on the Rights of the Child highlighted, “children are both rights-holders and stakeholders in business”. Children are potential consumers targeted by marketing strategies and possibly using harmful or unsuitable products and services, off and online. Many are workers in the formal or informal economy. They are family members of business employees and, as such, they may be directly affected by their working conditions and environment. Children are also members or residents of communities and environments, which are affected by business activities or in which business operates. Children are “often disproportionately affected by the adverse impact of business activities”. Yet, the impact of business on children and their rights is often still invisible to many stakeholders: governmental bodies, decision makers within the business sector but also human rights advocates.
The aim of this virtual side event, which will be held on Wedneday October 21 from 1pm to 2:30pm CEST, is to create a platform to exchange on priorities to be raised and addressed during the 6th Session of the open-ended inter- governmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIGWG) from October 26 to October 30, 2020. This event will hear from diverse and relevant stakeholders on how they are addressing the impact of business activities and enterprises on the lives of children and youth and how a legally binding instrument could regulate and mitigate the negative impact on their rights.
Panellists:
• Anita Goh, International Commission of Jurists: Presentation of the legal analysis
• Emanuella Ribeiro Halfeld Maciel, Clínica de Direitos Humanos, Federal University of Minas Gerais,
children rights violations and mining tailing dams (Brazil)
• Gabriela Kühn, ECPAT International – Case study on child protection from sexual exploitation in the
context of business activities
• Cristina Duranti, Good shephard sisters international foundation – Case study child rights violations
in the context of mining, DR Congo
The side-event will be held on Zoom at the following link:
http://bit.ly/ChildRightsSideEvent (Meeting-ID: 857 4944 6537 Access code: [REDACTED])
Please register here if you wish to attend the event and check the concept note for additional information!
Event Contacts:
Child Rights Connect: Maty Diawara – programmes2@childrightsconnect.org
DKA Austria: Ingrid Pintaritsch – ingrid.pintaritsch@dka.at
