At the opening of the 98th CRC session, Child Rights Connect delivered a statement on behalf of its network: Distinguished members of the Committee, representatives of UN agencies, colleagues and friends, As the Committee holds its 100th session—an occasion that should be marked by celebration—Child Rights Connect expresses its deep concern over the [...]
From 1-3 September 2025, the first session of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) was held in Geneva to explore the possibility of a new Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This new instrument would focus on the rights to early childhood education, free pre-primary education, and free [...]
On 13 December 2025, Child Rights Connect and its Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict hosted an online consultation with European Union (EU) representatives and children living in armed conflict settings, enabling children to inform the upcoming Human Rights Council resolution on the rights of the child on children and armed conflict, [...]
Today, on Human Rights Day, we are pleased to share the Joint Messaging from civil society organisations working on children’s rights in the context of the UN80 Initiative. This collective message underscores the urgent need to place children and their rights at the centre of all UN reforms, protect child-specific [...]
Child Rights Connect has become aware of attempts to use our name to fraudulently contract humanitarian services in South Sudan. Child Rights Connect does not engage in any humanitarian activity in the country and has notified national and international authorities about these developments. If you have been contacted by [...]
Despite the ongoing UN liquidity crisis, which led to the cancellation of the May pre-session and the September session and pre-session, the Committee on the Rights of the Child made an exceptional decision to hold its 101st Pre-Session online to ensure that the review process could continue without disruption. This pre-session, covering Kazakhstan, [...]
On 9 September, an online webinar titled Advancing Children’s Right to a Healthy Environment was held to launch new guidance on General Comment No. 26 (GC26). The event was part of the How To Child Rights series and organized by Child Rights Connect’s WG on Child Rights and the Environment, CERI, Terre des Hommes, and Save the Children. As part of the launch, Denis [...]
From 1-3 September 2025, the first session of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) was held in Geneva to explore the possibility of a new Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This new instrument would focus on the rights to early childhood education, free pre-primary education, and free [...]
Updates on “The Now and the Future” project! Successful workshop in Brazil! Child Rights Connect (CRCnct) was in Brazil in July to implement the project "The Now and the Future: Advancing the Rights, Empowerment and Protection of Child Human Rights Defenders". The initiative, led by Zsuzsanna Rutai, the Child [...]
Joint letter on the impact of the UN liquidity crisis and the UN80 Initiative on children’s rights to Permanent Missions to the United Nations in Geneva and New York and the Secretary-General of United Nations: Excellencies, We, the undersigned civil society organisations, individual experts, national human rights institutions and ombudspersons [...]
