Just weeks after a new global Children’s Advisory Team was established at Child Rights Connect (an international network of children’s organisations with a Secretariat based in Geneva), we faced a COVID-19 outbreak. Soon after, the 11 child advisors, based across all regions of the world, began adapting to a new [...]
Following their annual meeting held 27-30 July, the Chairs of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies sent their written contribution to the co-facilitation process on treaty body review 2020. Among other priorities, the Chairs made the following proposals to strengthen the treaty body system effectively: Aligning the working methods Providing adequate [...]
Last Friday, Child Rights Connect together with Save the Children International, Plan International, and World Vision, sent a joint letter calling on the Secretary-General of the United Nations to include children in the list of young climate leaders who will advise him regularly on accelerating global action and ambition to [...]
The 32nd meeting of the Chairpersons of the 10 UN Committees took place online from 27-30 July 2020 to deal with the following pressing items: the UN budget crisis, the General Assembly review of the treaty body system in 2020 and the work of the treaty bodies in relation [...]
On Wednesday 29th July, the Human Rights Committee published their new General Comment No. 37 on Article 21: Right to Peaceful Assembly considering some key asks by Child Rights Connect. Empowering and ensuring children can effectively engage in peaceful assemblies We welcome the inclusion in paragraph 25 of the General [...]
The Permanent Missions of Switzerland and Morocco, as Co-Facilitators of the UN Human Rights Treaty Body Review Process 2020, received about 80 submissions from States, NHRIs, TB experts and civil society. They are now published on the Co-facilitation process webpage. Child Rights Connect, as a member of TB-Net, engaged in this strengthening process [...]
We are very pleased to announce the launch of our updated publication: My Pocket Guide to CRC Reporting A companion guide for children willing to tell the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child about how children’s rights are respected in their country The new version of the [...]
On the occasion of the Interactive dialogue with Special Rapporteur on the Rights to peaceful assembly and of association, that took place on the 9 and 10 July during the 44th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), we delivered a joint statement on behalf of the network to highlight the need to protect children’s civil and political rights and support their participation in decision making. This statement [...]
Children environmental human rights defenders are heard at the Annual Day on the Rights of the Child! On Thursday 1 July 2020, the Human Rights Council held the Annual full day meeting on the Rights of the Child focusing on Realizing the rights of the child through a healthy environment. For the first time ever, two children environmental human rights defenders spoke up [...]
“All of us can stand up for human rights – and you are doing that”, says the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to about 80 children’s rights defenders from around the world at Child Rights Connect’s first online General Assembly! On 25 June 2020, more than 30 regional, national [...]
