Calendar
Here you can find upcoming public events with Child Rights Connect’s Secretariat involvement. In addition, you can find updated information on the sessions and pre-sessions of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Arigatou International: A Collaborative Study on the Contributions from Religious Communities
Arigatou International, in close collaboration with the Office of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Violence against Children (SRSG) and other key partners, has initiated a study which consists of a review of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) from a multi-religious perspective. The [...]
Celebrating 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
European Parliament Brussels, BelgiumThe European Parliament will organise a conference on 20 November to mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The conference will consider progress over the past three decades and reflect on the challenges that new generations face in a global and digital world. It [...]
83rd session
Pre-session (03.06.2019 - 07.06.2019): Austria (CRC), Belarus (CRC), Cook Islands (CRC), Costa Rica (CRC), Micronesia (Federal States of) (CRC), Rwanda (CRC), State of Palestine (CRC), Tuvalu (CRC) Session (20.01.2020 - 07.02.2020): Austria (CRC), Belarus (CRC), Cook Islands (CRC), Costa Rica (CRC), Micronesia (Federal States of) (CRC), Rwanda (CRC), State of Palestine (CRC), [...]
85th pre-session
Chile (LOIPR), Cuba (CRC), Djibouti (CRC), Gambia (LOIPR), Greece (CRC), Madagascar (CRC), Somalia (CRC), Zambia (LOIPR)
HRC Intersessional event on “Realizing the rights of the child through a healthy environment”
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High-level mainstreaming panel on CRC30, 43rd session of the HRC
High-level mainstreaming panel on CRC30, 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council
84th session in Samoa
Apia Apia, SamoaSession: Cook Islands, Micronesia, Tuvalu Pre-session: Kiribati Find more information on out dedicated webpage!
Adoption of the LOIPR (Mauritius, NZ, Sweden)
The LOIPR of Mauritius, New Zealand and Sweden will be adopted as planned in June 2020.
85th online limited session
85th online limited session with no State reviews (postponed to January 2021).
87th pre-session
Canada (CRC), Iceland (CRC), Kuwait (CRC), Philippines (CRC), Poland (CRC SRP), Ukraine (CRC), Vietnam (CRC) Adoption of LOIPR: France, Ireland The 87th pre-session, originally planned in June 2020, is postponed to September/October 2020.
Virtual Side Event on a Child Rights Approach to the LBI Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights
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 [...]
Launch of the new publication : “The Rights of Child Human Rights Defenders: Implementation Guide”
Child Rights Connect is thrilled to announce the release of our new publication “The Rights of Child Human Rights Defenders: Implementation Guide”, which will be presented during this virtual launch event on December 7th, 2020, from 1pm to 2:30pm CET. You can check out the event flyer and read the quick intro to the [...]
86th online limited session
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/SessionDetails1.aspx?SessionID=2480&Lang=en
88th pre-session
Pre-session: Afghanistan (OPAC), Azerbaijan (CRC), Bolivia (CRC), Germany (CRC), Luxembourg (CRC SRP), North Macedonia (CRC), South Sudan (CRC), Uzbekistan (CRC) Adoption of LOIPR: South Africa, United Kingdom This pre-session will be held online.
87th session (online)
The CRC Committee decided to undertake online reviews "on a pilot exceptional basis" for Luxembourg (SRP) and Tunisia. Deadline for additional submission (standard procedure): 5th May 2021 Programme of work is available here: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRC/Pages/CRCIndex.aspx
89th pre-session
SRP pre-sessions: Croatia, Netherlands, Switzerland. Deadline for written inputs to State report: 1st May 2021 Adoption of LOIPR: Bulgaria, Fiji, Liechtenstein, Oman. Deadline for written inputs to LOIPR: 1st March 2021
88th session
The session will be conducted in-person with the following country reviews: Czech Republic, Eswatini, Poland (SRP), Switzerland (SRP). Deadline for additional submission: 15th August 2021 The review of Afghanistan (CRC, OPAC) is postponed.
90th pre-session
SRP Pre-session: Chile and Zambia Deadline for written inputs to the State report: 1st September 2021 Adoption of LOIPR: Bhutan, Ecuador, Estonia, Georgia, Guatemala, Peru and Sierra Leone. Deadline for written inputs to LOIPR: 1st July 2021
89th session
Madagascar, Netherlands (SRP) Deadline for additional submission: 15th December 2021 "As a result of unprecedented rise of COVID-19/Omicron cases, the OHCHR has evaluated that the 89th session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child due to start on 17 January 2022 is not possible in an in-person format. The [...]
SIDE-EVENT AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF CHAIRPERSONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES: IMPLEMENTING THE TREATY BODY REVIEW 2020 – WHERE DO WE STAND
This side event at the 34th Annual Meeting of Chairpersons of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies, co-organized by the Geneva Human Rights Platform, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Commonwealth Secretariat, TB-Net and the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN in New York. represents an opportunity for all stakeholders to take [...]