The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights updates children on the status of their General Comment on Sustainable Development
Check out the videos to learn about the main takeaways from the consultations with children! On 5th and 6th of April 2022, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights held three Consultations with children coming from all around the world and [...]
Addressing the Mental Health of Children by Prioritizing their Social, Emotional and Spiritual Well-Being
The COVID-19 pandemic has had many negative impacts on the lives of children and adolescents. One particular area of concern is the consequences on their mental health and well-being. According to early findings from an international survey of children and adults in 21 countries conducted [...]
Civil society and children contributed to shaping the draft UN Guidance Note on Child Rights Mainstreaming!
For the first time ever, the UN as a system is making an assessment of how it integrates child rights into its work. The Secretary-General has committed to develop a Guidance Note on Child Rights Mainstreaming to provide practical guidance to all levels of the [...]
Spread the word about our new #ChildrenStandUp4HumanRights appeal !
We have just launched our new campaign #ChildrenStandUp4HumanRights: Follow their lead! to garner support for our child advisors to take forward their own national awareness-raising and advocacy campaigns in the context of the 25th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and [...]
Early Childhood as a Pathway to the Culture of Peace and Non-Violent Society
Freedom from violence is a human right of the child. But many children all over the world grow up with violence in homes, schools, neighborhoods, communities and countries. Moreover, the expansion of technology has increasingly exposed children to violence in the cyber space. Living in [...]
Our child advisors and mentors inform upcoming report of Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders on positive change
You can read the full submission from Child Rights Connect and its Children’s Advisory Team (CAT) and Mentor Group here. 7 of the current and former members of Child Rights Connect’s Children's Advisory Team recently shared case studies to feed into an upcoming report [...]
Joint civil society statement on Secretary-General’s fourth biennial report on the status of the treaty body system
At the UN General Assembly, TB-Net and other organisations (including Amnesty International, the Geneva Human Rights Platform (Geneva Academy), the International Service for Human Rights, and the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights), raised the need to support the development of predictable [...]