In March 2020, the CRC Committee will hold an additional session in Samoa to review the States of Cook Islands, Micronesia and Tuvalu, and the pre-session of Kiribati! This will be the first in-country session ever organised by a Human Rights Treaty Body! It is indeed a great opportunity for [...]
We are now accepting applications from children to become child advisors on our new Children’s Advisory Team 2020/2021! Child Rights Connect is setting up a new global Children’s Advisory Team, which will become a permanent group within the organisation and central to advancing our efforts on children’s empowerment globally. The [...]
How can we ensure that children’s civil and political rights are not forgotten when we talk about incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law; what is the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (the Declaration) and how can we take a child rights perspective [...]
At the closing of the ceremony to celebrate 30 years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Child Rights Connect’s President, Mária Herczog, called on all stakeholders to put child rights at the highest level of a common agenda to ensure respect, protection and [...]
In celebrating thirty years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, we pledge to discharge our commitment to achieve respect, protection and fulfilment of the rights of every child in every place. […]
Following a strengthened collaboration with the Inter-American Children’s Institute (IIN – OEA), Child Rights Connect participated for the first time in the XXII Pan-American Child Congress that took place from 29 to 31 October in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. The Congress, which takes place every five years, is the main [...]
On the occasion of the joint celebration of 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and 40 years of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women, Child Rights Connect spoke of the need for inclusive and meaningful girls’ participation in human [...]
Child Rights Connect today addressed the Human Rights Council’s Social Forum, calling for action to provide children with the means and the confidence to claim their, and others, rights, including through child participation in schools and in broader contexts. […]
Child Rights Connect welcomes the lodging this week of a child-led complaint to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning the global climate crisis. On 23 September 2019, 16 children human rights defenders filed a landmark complaint concerning the climate crisis with the UN Committee on the [...]
In the margins of the Human Rights Council’s 42nd regular session in Geneva, Child Rights Connect spoke at a side event on access to justice for all children. […]
