The High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism is calling for a UN wide strategy to implement children’s rights!
In the Our Common Agenda, under the key proposal to “Upgrade the United Nations”, the UN Secretary-General decided to establish a High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism (HLAB) to identify concrete recommendations ahead of the 2024 Summit of the Future to improve international cooperation through [...]
First children’s panel at the Annual Day of the Rights of the Child on the digital environment!
The 2023 HRC Annual Day on the Rights of the Child had the highest number of child participants in the history of this event ensuring that discussions on the digital world include children’s views and experiences. On 10 March, this year’s Annual Day of the [...]
25th anniversary of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders marked with praise and recognition for the role of child human rights defenders
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. On 15 March 2023, the Human Rights Council hosted the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, where she presented her report “Success through [...]
UN’s 2023 Annual Day on the Rights of the Child will discuss the rights of the child and the digital environment
The 2023 edition of this UN Human Rights Council’s annual event will take place on March 10 in Geneva and discuss the implications of applying a children’s rights perspective with respect to digital tools and technologies. On March 10, The Palace of Nations in Geneva, [...]
Extreme poverty constitutes a severe form of violence
Extreme poverty is a severe form of violence against children, due to the multiple deprivations they suffer while living in poverty, and is often accompanied by stigma and discrimination. At the same time, poverty makes children more vulnerable to other forms of violence such as [...]
A new pilot project to boost the agency of children at risk of or separated from their parents to shape and take forward their human rights activities in Bulgaria
Thanks to project funding from Tanya’s Dream Fund hosted by Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, we have recently launched a new pilot project in Bulgaria, in collaboration with the National Network for Children (NNC) and the New Bulgarian University - Know How Centre for Alternative Care for [...]
For the first time ever, children will inform the development (and implementation) of a new law on the protection of human rights defenders! This is our project in Moldova.
Thanks to new project funding from the Ville de Genève as well as on-going financial support from the Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (Sida), we are about to step up our action in Moldova, in collaboration with our long-time partner and member, the Centrul [...]