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 [...]
New! Child-Friendly Position Paper on Child Rights Mainstreaming
Last year, Child Rights Connect launched a position paper on child rights mainstreaming calling for the United Nations (UN) to act. The office of the Secretary-General of the UN replied by agreeing to develop a [...]
Joint Call for Child Participation at Upcoming ILO Conference on Child Labour
From the 15th till the 20th of May, the V Global Conference on Child Labour is taking place in Durban, South Africa. Here, you can find the draft agenda for the event presented by the [...]
Child Rights Connect In Action: Empowering children and other defenders to influence the law and practices on human rights defenders in Moldova
Key challenges faced by CHRDs in Moldova The world is experiencing an unprecedent mobilization of children acting to address the most pressing challenges faced by humanity. Moldova is no exception. Children are increasingly acting as [...]
Norway drops children from important human rights resolution
Check out the op-ed developed by Gina Ekholt and Issac Elstad on this year's resolution on human rights defenders! 29 March 2022 - This week, the members of the UN Human Rights Council will adopt [...]