Call to put children’s rights in ASIA at the center of the COVID-19 response
Last week, Child Rights Connect, Child Rights Asia, Joining Forces and ECPAT International co-signed a joint statement to call on two intergovernmental regional bodies, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the South Asian [...]
A Story of the CRC Committee and its outreach to the Pacific Islands
During the week of 2 March 2020, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (the Committee) held an extraordinary outreach session in Apia, Samoa – the first ever regional session of the United [...]
COVID-19 pandemic and child rights
Child Rights Connect today endorsed an open letter from the Joining Forces alliance to Presidents, Prime Ministers, Governments and Mayors. […]
The Human Rights Council celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child with a High-Level Panel on children’s rights mainstreaming within the UN
Child Rights Connect and its members addressed high-level representatives of the three UN pillars to call for better mainstreaming of a child rights-based approach in the work of the United Nations, including through establishment of [...]
Advancing children’s rights relating to the environment: event to kickstart discussions on the 2020 Annual Day on the Rights of the Child
“Younger generations are afraid of not having the possibility to hope for a better future. I think everyone is aware of the threats represented by environmental harms but there is a lack of concrete actions [...]
Child Rights Connect Working Group on Environment statement at HRC dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on enviroment
On Monday 2nd March 2020, our member Terre des Hommes delivered a statement on behalf of the Child Rights Connect working group on children and the environment during the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur [...]