Joint Submission to CRC concerning General Comment on Digital Environment
Child Rights Connect and its members including Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights) presented a joint submission with the Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education of the Dublin City University Institute of Education and [...]
DGD Child Advisor Kurt quoted by the Representative of the Secretary-General at the opening of the 81st CRC session!
In his statement, the Representative of the Secretary-General Adam Abdelmoula, Director of the Treaty Mechanisms Division, quoted our DGD Child Advisor from Argentina Kurt, 16-year-old, to remind State parties that after 30 years of Convention on [...]
DGD child speaker Gabriel talks to Michel Forst at the ICSW
Last week, 17-year-old Gabriel from Brazil participated in the International Civil Society Week (ICSW) in Belgrade, Serbia, between 6 – 11 April. Invited by the Bridge 47 and CIVICUS and supported by our member the [...]
OPIC Anniversary: 5 Years since Children can Lodge Complaints with the UN about Violations of their Rights
14 April 2019 marks 5 years since the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure (OPIC). The Protocol empowered children allowing them [...]
Children Human Rights Defenders in Scotland have developed a report on CHRDs and a child-friendly Declaration on HRDs!
Exciting follow-up to the DGD! Find out more here: https://www.cypcs.org.uk/defenders The eight recommendations of the report are explained here: https://www.cypcs.org.uk/news/in-the-news/children-and-young-people-defend-our-human-rights-here-are-eight-ways-adults-can-help-them-do-it Also, they have produced a child-friendly version of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders! Find [...]
New advances in the empowerment and participation of children with disabilities
The inclusion and participation of children with disabilities in discussions and decisions that will affect them is as much a right as a pre-requisite to their empowerment. Moreover, children’s rights and disability rights have mostly [...]