Child Rights Connect expressed concerns for the cancellation of two weeks of the 89th CRC session
At the opening of the 89th session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Child Rights Connect called on the Committee and OHCHR to explore all possible ways to address the worrying backlog: [...]
Stepping up joint efforts to bring the Caribbean up to speed on the realisation of children’s rights
High-Level conference identifies key priorities to advance children’s rights in the Caribbean Participants focused on the need of international and regional human rights mechanisms to foster child rights promotion On December 7th 2021, Child Rights Connect co-organised a high-level conference on Advancing children's rights in the Caribbean by using [...]
New! Child-friendly International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)
On Human Rights Day 2021 and on the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA), we are launching, with IMADR, a new child-friendly International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and its standards. This new resource seeks to [...]
Join the Joint Position Paper on key recommendation on Child Rights and Family Reunification!
The Human Rights Council (HRC) will dedicate its next annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child to take place in March 2022 on the theme “the rights of the child and family [...]
A big win for child rights as the Council recognises that having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right, and establishes a Special Rapporteur dedicated to climate change!
The main UN human rights body, the Human Rights Council, recognized for the first time that having a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is indeed a human right! Through resolution 48/13, overwhelmingly voted in favor on 8 October, [...]
Milestone decision by the UN Secretary-General in response to our position paper on child rights mainstreaming
After only four weeks since the submission of Child Rights Connect’s position paper to his Office, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is taking action to start addressing the lack of a system-wide approach to child rights in the UN. From the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination, Mr. Volker [...]