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2023 in review: Bringing more children to the table and influencing the Human Rights Council and related processes on the digital environment: a key milestone

Download the visual on these results here! Children’s voices historically ignored at the Human Rights Council The UN Human Rights Council is the main intergovernmental body within the United Nations (UN) responsible for advancing human rights around the globe and for addressing situations of human rights violations and making recommendations [...]

2024-06-11T14:12:24+02:002 May , 2024|
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2023 in review: Elevating the voices and rights of child human rights defenders across the globe to make a change

Download our visual about these results here! Children acting as human rights defenders remain often ignored, neglected and intimidated We cannot say it enough: whether we call them child human rights defenders (CHRDs), child activists or changemakers, more and more children lead by example in challenging the world’s most pressing [...]

2024-06-11T14:58:37+02:002 May , 2024|
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An empowering journey towards developing the first-ever report on child and youth human rights defenders

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) [...]

2025-05-09T12:12:37+02:0026 March , 2024|
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ADRC 2024: Children speak up on their right to inclusive social protection and their role in ensuring child rights mainstreaming at the UN.

This year’s Annual Day on the Rights of the Child reached the highest level of child participation so far! This edition, the discussions concerned two topics: Inclusive Social Protection and Child Rights Mainstreaming at the United Nations. On 14 March, the Annual Day on the Rights of the Child took [...]

2025-05-09T12:12:50+02:0021 March , 2024|
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A huge victory for child human rights defenders: explicit recognition and protection under the new Law on Children’s Rights of the Republic of Moldova

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 [...]

2024-03-19T09:28:18+01:0029 February , 2024|
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Children stand up for human rights around 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

December marked the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR75). Child Rights Connect worked closely with the UN Office for Human Rights to ensure that child participation was a key aspect in as well as in the high-level closing event in Palais des nations aimed to reinvigorate [...]

2025-05-09T12:12:59+02:0023 January , 2024|
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2022 in review: Further building momentum for realising the rights, protection and empowerment of child human rights defenders at all levels

Children experience specific and additional challenges and violations when acting as human rights defenders because of their status in society "Children are already human rights defenders, with the same rights as adults. We must recognize their vital role and the obligation of States to protect their rights", emphasized the Chairperson [...]

2023-08-31T11:20:18+02:0031 May , 2023|
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“Changing the narrative means changing the narrator, putting children’s voices at the centre”, said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at our 40th anniversary conference on 26 May

In a context of growing anti-child rights rhetoric globally, on 26 May 2023, more than 200 children, including many of our child advisors, as well as child rights experts and practitioners (among whom around 74% of girls and women) gathered in Geneva or online as part of our 40th anniversary [...]

2024-04-09T14:26:56+02:0030 May , 2023|
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2022 in review: New spaces opened for children to voice their views, engage adults, and act for what they believe in

Historic exclusion of children in decision-making and persistent pushback on child participation Children have historically been excluded from discussions and decision-making at all levels, including from international policy debates on matters that directly affect them. Yet, the escalating environmental crisis, rising inequalities, and migration crisis, among others, have a heavy [...]

2023-08-31T11:18:38+02:0017 May , 2023|
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A new pilot project to boost the agency of children at risk of or separated from their parents to shape and take forward their human rights activities in Bulgaria

Thanks to project funding from Tanya’s Dream Fund hosted by Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, we have recently launched a new pilot project in Bulgaria, in collaboration with the National Network for Children (NNC) and the New Bulgarian University - Know How Centre for Alternative Care for Children (KHC), to advance the [...]

2023-02-15T15:14:42+01:0015 February , 2023|
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