Great news! The survey for civil society on Child Rights Mainstreaming is out!
Great news! The UN Core Group leading the development of the Secretary General guidance note on child rights mainstreaming has just published the online survey for civil society in English, French and Spanish, in order to gather inputs from you! You can access it on [...]
#GA2022: Child Rights Connect reaches 100 organisations in the network and speaks with a stronger voice for child rights mainstreaming
Members and observers of the Child Rights Connect network convened on 2 and 3 June 2022 for the annual General Assembly, an encounter dedicated to discussing and approving key documents, electing members of the Executive Committee as well as admitting members and observers of the [...]
Civil society’s key claims at the 34th Annual Meeting of Chairpersons of Human Rights Treaty Bodies
TB-Net and the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) made a submission for the 34th Annual Meeting of Chairpersons of Human Rights Treaty Bodies, taking place from 30th May until 3rd June 2022 in New York. Read it here and find below the key points [...]
Child Rights Connect In Action: Responding to the unprecedent mobilization of children for climate justice
Children’s calls for climate justice have been heard, but largely ignored The world is experiencing an unprecedented mobilization of children acting to demand urgent action to address the ever-escalating climate crisis, which severely affects the lives of children and their future, amongst others. In the [...]
Child Rights Connect and its members engage in the Council’s Special Session on Ukraine
The Human Rights Council decided to organize this week a Special Session to focus on the deteriorating human rights situation in Ukraine stemming from the Russian aggression. Child Rights Connect and its members made a joint statement calling for the cease of hostilities, as well [...]
Child Rights Connect In Action: Building political consensus and empowering civil society towards OPIC ratification
The OPIC, a unique instrument that has yet to be ratified by many States Seven years have passed since the entry into force of the Optional Protocol on an Individual Communications procedure (OPIC), an international human rights treaty that allows the UN Committee on the [...]
Trends on child rights at the Human Rights Council 49 session: updates on child participation and CHRDs; new resolution on family reunification; and a major win for child rights mainstreaming
New space is gained at the Council regarding the participation of children, whilst trends against child participation and child human rights defenders continue. The resolution on the rights of the child and family reunification maintains international standards. The UN Human Rights Office gets a new [...]