UN General Assembly groundbreaking resolution with 193 States committed to implementing children’s rights in the digital environment!
Amidst some disagreement over language, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted by consensus the Resolution on the Rights of the Child in the digital environment in November 2023. Worldwide, around 2.2 billion children and young [...]
A young person brings the demands of children and young people to the Aarhus Convention during the 8th meeting of the Task Force on Access to Information!
The eighth meeting of the Task Force on Access to Information under the Aarhus Convention and International Workshop on Access to Product Information was held in Geneva on the 9th and the 10th of November [...]
World Children’s Day – Time to celebrate and reflect
*Updated on the 21/11/2023 On 20 November, we celebrate World Children’s Day and commemorate the 34th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Convention on the Rights of the Child, the [...]
How to stop failing boys on issues of sexual abuse and exploitation: The call from ECPAT International Global Boys Initiative to provide gender-sensitive services to boy survivors
Breaking the Silence: Unmasking Boys' Struggles and Transforming Harmful Gender Norms Society places expectations on boys to be invulnerable, demonstrate strength, be self-sufficient, and when faced with adversity, to control their emotions and [...]
Child Rights Connect deplores the grave violations of children’s rights in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory
Child Rights Connect joins the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and UN independent experts in strongly condemning the grave violations of children’s rights in the context of armed conflict in Israel and [...]
It is time for the child rights movement to take bold action to give space to children, we raised at the CRC 94 session
At the opening of the 94th CRC session, Child Rights Connect delivered a statement on behalf of its network: Distinguished members of the Committee, As most of you know, 40 years ago a group of [...]