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For the first time, this year’s negotiations to develop a business and human rights treaty included considerations of child rights throughout the week of consultations, which took place from 26 to 30 October. This was the result of coordinated advocacy among Child Rights Connect, its members and partners to bring a child rights-based approach into the discussions.   In 2014, States established an open-ended intergovernmental working group (IGWG) to elaborate such a legally [...]

New tools to fostering the ratification of the OPIC   “While the CRC and its first two Optional Protocols have attracted high ratification rates, states appear to be more reticent about signing up to OPIC (…) Ratification [of the OPIC] opens the door to the access to justice for children (…)”   These are the words of CRC [...]

Together with the other TB-Net members, Amnesty International and ISHR, Child Rights Connect has drafted a civil society letter in EN, FR, SP and RU to show support to the Treaty Bodies, express concerns on the current situation and highlight the strong need to see the Treaty Bodies performing their [...]

In the midst of a global human rights crisis, affecting millions of children worldwide, Child Rights Connect calls on government to pay their regular budget assessments in full and to stand up for the values upon which the United Nations system, in particular the human rights mechanisms, were built. Delays [...]

On Monday 21st September, during the Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on Hazardous Substances for the ongoing 45th session of the Human Rights Council, the Child Rights Connect Working Group on Environment delivered a joint statement, along with the Children's Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI), on realising children's rights [...]

2020 marked the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In commemoration of this anniversary, the Permanent Mission of Belgium together with the Permanent Mission of Uruguay took the initiative to deliver a strong statement with support from [...]

The consideration of children’s rights has been historically absent from environmental or climate-related policies, laws, and action, due to weak political will and a general lack of awareness of the many links between child rights and a safe and healthy environment. However, at the September Human Rights Council session, States [...]

After taking informal consultations with States in both New York and Geneva, as well as with the OHCHR, the treaty bodies, and the civil society, the Permanent Missions of Switzerland and Morocco, as Co-Facilitators of the UN Human Rights Treaty Body Review Process 2020, have released their report containing their [...]

At the opening of the online session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Child Rights Connect called for collaboration with and support to the Committee to ensure its ability to effectively discharge its full mandate. […]

The informal consultation of the co-facilitators of the process of the treaty body system review took place on 28 August 2020. Watch the morning session with States and the afternoon session with stakeholders. TB-Net members OMCT, GI-ESCR and IMADR, as well as ISHR, delivered statements to reaffirm the key proposals [...]