📢 For the first time, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights meets with children from all over the world!
On the 5th and 6th of April, children from all around the globe participated in Child Consultations held by the UN CESCR on its next General Comment on sustainable development and economic, social, and cultural [...]
Child Rights Connect welcomes the extended 90th CRC session
At the opening of the 90th session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Child Rights Connect reminded the importance of CRC recommendations to States on Child Human Rights Defenders as the implementation [...]
Child Rights Connect In Action: Children influence global discussions on the Sustainable Development Goals
Children have been historically excluded from discussions at the Human Rights Council The 2017 Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution on the protection of child rights in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development [...]
Child Rights Connect In Action: Empowering defenders to use the OPIC to ensure redress for child victims
Why the OPIC is key to providing redress to children when national mechanisms fail to do so Child human rights violations are on the rise, particularly given the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and escalating [...]
Child Rights Connect In Action: Child Participation and Child Empowerment – Reflections from our Child Advisors
Why a Children’s Advisory Team (CAT) There are multiple examples of child human rights defenders (CHRDs) from all horizons vibrantly advocating for the protection of human rights, the environment and social justice. The voices of [...]
Child Rights Connect In Action: Now more than ever: Resourcing children and other defenders to call on States to effect change through the CRC Committee
Reduced opportunities for bringing State parties to account on their implementation of the UNCRC Civil society reporting is critical to informing the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee), the [...]