We are delighted to announce that the CRC Committee has adopted the 2018 DGD outcome report on Protecting and Empowering Children as Human Rights Defenders! It includes the detailed findings of the plenary and workshop discussions, and highlights the main recommendations endorsed by the Committee with the goal of providing guidance to States [...]
Delays in UN membership contributions by Member States are putting human rights, including children’s rights, at risk, according to the global network Child Rights Connect. The network has warned that the funding shortfall is undermining the UN system and multilateralism. A direct result of this shortfall will be the cancellation [...]
Child Rights Connect and its members including Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights) presented a joint submission with the Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education of the Dublin City University Institute of Education and the Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast on the CRC’s concept note for a [...]
In his statement, the Representative of the Secretary-General Adam Abdelmoula, Director of the Treaty Mechanisms Division, quoted our DGD Child Advisor from Argentina Kurt, 16-year-old, to remind State parties that after 30 years of Convention on the Rights of the Child, progress still needs to be done: “We, the youth, are [...]
14 April 2019 marks 5 years since the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure (OPIC). The Protocol empowered children allowing them to complain directly, and for the first time ever, to the UN Committee on the [...]
The inclusion and participation of children with disabilities in discussions and decisions that will affect them is as much a right as a pre-requisite to their empowerment. Moreover, children’s rights and disability rights have mostly developed in parallel, with limited intersections. But the unique momentum created by the focus on [...]
Until now, child participation in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) has been limited and ad hoc and children have been largely absent. But this is changing, with the joint commitment by UPR info and Child Rights Connect to advance globally the systematic and sustained empowerment of children in each [...]
Children have so far been almost invisible in the Human Rights Council’s narrative about human rights defenders. The resolutions adopted by the Council and the reports presented by the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders to the Member States have been historically centred on adult defenders. The 40th session of the [...]
This is the first joint letter Child Rights Connect has prepared for the Treaty Bodies 2020 review process, together with TBNet, Amnesty International and other NGOs. Child Rights Connect empowers children’s rights defenders to be more effective in holding States accountable by using the UN human rights system for their advocacy, and to influence and use the [...]
