📢 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: A turning point in the recognition of children as informed decision-makers: children influence high-level processes related to 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: Resourcing and empowering children, children’s rights defenders, other non-State actors and State actors to strategically use the OPIC to ensure redress for child victims of human rights violations and contribute to wider change
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: From Child Participation to Child Empowerment – Reflections from Child Rights Connect’s 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: A need to resource children and children’s rights defenders to effectively engage with the CRC Committee about child rights in their countries; and a call on States to effect change
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 [...]