At the opening of the 89th session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Child Rights Connect called on the Committee and OHCHR to explore all possible ways to address the worrying backlog: […]
High-Level conference identifies key priorities to advance children’s rights in the Caribbean Participants focused on the need of international and regional human rights mechanisms to foster child rights promotion On December 7th 2021, Child Rights Connect co-organised a high-level conference on Advancing children's rights in the Caribbean by using the international and regional human rights systems to support national efforts (Read the summary of the [...]
On Human Rights Day 2021 and on the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA), we are launching, with IMADR, a new child-friendly International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and its standards. This new resource seeks to raise awareness of international human rights standards against racial discrimination and as a tool for [...]
The Human Rights Council (HRC) will dedicate its next annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child to take place in March 2022 on the theme “the rights of the child and family reunification”. As per usual practice, it will also be the theme of the next HRC [...]
The main UN human rights body, the Human Rights Council, recognized for the first time that having a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is indeed a human right! Through resolution 48/13, overwhelmingly voted in favor on 8 October, the Council emphasized the importance that the recognition of the right to a safe, clean, [...]
After only four weeks since the submission of Child Rights Connect’s position paper to his Office, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is taking action to start addressing the lack of a system-wide approach to child rights in the UN. From the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination, Mr. Volker Turk, addressed a letter to Child Rights Connect’s President, Maria Herczog. His letter welcomes the position paper of Child Rights Connect and expresses agreement with the analysis that “a [...]
The current gaps in child rights mainstreaming at the UN can no longer be overlooked. Child rights mainstreaming across the whole UN system is a necessary journey that needs to start now and must engage children. Read the summary of the event here. Access recordings of the events here: English [...]
The Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Mikiko Otani, delivered a statement at the 76th session of the General Assembly in New York, on 7th October 2021. The Chair took this opportunity to recall the high-level panel discussion held at the Human Rights Council in February [...]
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Day of General Discussion (DGD) 2021 on child rights and alternative care took place on 16th and 17th September. It was a momentous occasion and the first time that the Committee took forward this event entirely online (due to the COVID-19 [...]
On 10 September 2021 the UN Secretary General has presented his report on Our Common Agenda: Responding to Current and Future Challenges. The report, together with the SG call to action for human rights, is further evidence of the need for child rights mainstreaming across the UN system as well [...]
