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.
General Assembly – Child Rights Connect
Club Suisse de la Presse 106, route Ferney, Geneva, SwitzerlandChild Rights Connect Public Reception
Club Suisse de la Presse 106, route Ferney, Geneva, SwitzerlandChild Rights Connect is organising a networking reception, with children’s rights defenders from around the world and inspiring keynote speakers, to trigger discussions and ideas on recognising children as human rights defenders. During this event Child Rights Connect will be represented by more than 30 of its members, from around [...]
78th Session
Algeria (OPAC), Angola (CRC, OPSC, OPAC), Argentina (CRC), Lesotho (CRC), Montenegro (CRC), Norway (CRC)
79th Session
Benin (OPSC, OPAC), El Salvador (CRC), Lao People’s Democratic Republic (CRC), Mauritania (CRC), Niger (CRC, OPSC), Saudi Arabia (OPSC, OPAC)
Day of General Discussion “Protecting & Empowering Children as Human Rights Defenders”
Palais des Nations, Room XVII Palais des Nations, Geneva, SwitzerlandMore information
80th Session
Pre-session (04.06.2018-08.06.2018): Bahrain (CRC), Belgium (CRC), Croatia (LOIPR), Czech Republic (OPSC), Guinea (CRC), Hungary (LOIPR), Italy (CRC), Syrian Arab Republic (CRC) Session (14.01.2019-01.02.2019): Bahrain (CRC), Belgium (CRC), Czech Republic (OPSC), Guinea (CRC), Italy (CRC), Japan (CRC), Syrian Arab Republic (CRC)
Study on the global status of engagement in CRC reporting
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 [...]
81st Session
Pre-session (08.10.2018-12.10.2018): Botswana (CRC), Cabo Verde (CRC), Côte d’Ivoire (CRC), Malta (CRC), Poland (LOIPR), Singapore (CRC), Sri Lanka (OPSC), Tonga (CRC) Session (13.05.2019 - 31.05.2019): Botswana (CRC), Cabo Verde (CRC), Côte d’Ivoire (CRC), Malta (CRC), Singapore (CRC), Sri Lanka (OPSC), Tonga (CRC)
30 years after the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: achievements, challenges and opportunities, with a key focus on access to information, digital skills and online safety for children
Palais des Nations (Room XXV)Background and objectives The Permanent Mission of Romania and the Permanent Mission of Austria are organizing an event in the margins of the 81st session of the CRC entitled "30 years after the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: achievements, challenges and opportunities, with a key [...]
Strategic litigation before the UN: a tool for social and legal change
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 [...]
The Human Rights of Children in Practice – Too serious to be left only to the goodwill of adults
La Pastorale, Centre d'Accueil de la Genève Internationale (CAGI) , SwitzerlandAn event in the context of the 30th anniversary of the CRC is being organised by the University of Geneva as part of their Summer Schools programme, in partnership with Child Rights Connect, 30 ans de droits de l’enfant and the Centre Interfacultaire en droits de l’enfant! Konstantinos, a child [...]