First hearing requested by children at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights!
For the first time, children from Latin America appeared before the IACHR to share their experiences about the threats, persecution, criminalisation and violence they face for protecting the environment and raising awareness of climate change. They demanded to be recognised [...]
2024 in review: Successful advocacy to advance children’s civil and political rights amid pushback
In 2024, the global normative pushback against children’s rights—particularly around gender and civil and political rights—intensified. In response, Child Rights Connect put increased efforts to advance understanding and protection of children’s civil and political rights at the global level, in particular [...]
New taskforce report: Making Early Childhood Development a Global Priority
Child Rights Connect taskforce on inclusive social protection has released a new report calling for Early Childhood Development to be explicitly reaffirmed as a global political priority, essential for every child’s survival and well-being, especially those in crisis-affected and marginalized [...]
2024 in review: Anchoring our Strategic Vision for Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Child Human Rights Defenders as a global movement at the United Nations
Children continue to expand and are increasingly at the forefront of activism and mobilizing worldwide to demand change on a broad spectrum of societal, economic, environmental and political issues concerning humanity today. Child human rights defenders (CHRDs) do not only [...]
2024 in review: Our critical support to ensure a meaningful engagement of civil society with the CRC Committee, amidst the UN liquidity crisis
In 2024, children's rights globally have been severely impacted by escalating challenges, making it one of the most difficult years for children worldwide. The ongoing armed conflicts have intensified, resulting in the tragic loss of tens of thousands of young [...]
CSOs statement: Urgent support needed for the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
On the Occasion of the 37th meeting of the Chairpersons of Human Rights Treaty Bodies, the NGO Network on UN Treaty Bodies (TB-Net) of which Child Rights Connect is a member, issued a public statement alongside other CSOs. The treaty [...]
Child Rights Connect is the new host of the How to Child Rights (HTCR) series!
HOW TO CHILD RIGHTS is a platform that facilitates co-creation and peer learning on child rights in practice. It offers a series of practical, high quality, tried and tested tools, guidance and case studies and peer exchanges, to support effective and [...]
Updates on the project “The Now and the Future: Advancing the Rights, Empowerment and Protection of Child Human Rights Defenders”
Updates on the project “The Now and the Future: Advancing the Rights, Empowerment and Protection of Child Human Rights Defenders" Stepping Up for Change: Context Our world is facing many intersecting crises, and we strongly believe that children can [...]
CRC session 99
At the opening of the 99th CRC session, Child Rights Connect delivered a statement on behalf of its network: Distinguished members of the Committee, representatives of UN agencies and CSOs, colleagues and friends, Thank you for the opportunity to address [...]
Digital protection of child human rights defenders
We are happy to share our survey on the digital protection of child human rights defenders! As part of the project “The Now and the Future: Advancing the Rights, Empowerment and Protection of Child Human Rights Defenders”, Child Rights Connect [...]
This page responds to the child advisors’ call for a platform to monitor the follow-up to the Day of General Discussion (DGD) on Protecting and Empowering Children as Human Rights defenders. It showcases direct follow-up activities to the 2018 DGD as well as examples of the different ways in which the global movement for children human rights defenders is growing at different levels and in many different forms.
