New Child Online Protection Guidelines empowering children to exercise their rights online!
Yesterday the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) agency of the United Nations launched its revised Child Online Protection (COP) Guidelines targeting children, parents & educators, the industry, and policymakers. Together with ECPAT International and Western Sydney University, Child Rights Connect led the review the COP Guidelines [...]
? Call for contributions for the UN Treaty Body review process
As co-facilitators of the UN human rights treaty body review process, the Permanent Missions of Switzerland and Morocco to the UN are calling for written contributions, open to all relevant stakeholders. Although there are no restrictions to the inputs, some issues may guide the submissions: [...]
Close to 45 child rights organisations gathering for Child Rights Connect’s General Assembly!
Child Rights Connect is pleased to announce that its Annual General Assembly will be held on 25 June 2020. Around 45 regional, national and local child rights organisations and coalitions from around the world, all members of the Child Rights Connect network, are expected to [...]
TB-Net engagement in the Informal Meeting of Chairs of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies
The informal meeting of Chairs of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (UNTBs) happening online from 2-5 June 2020 aims to exchange on the way forward in view of the current COVID-19 situation and challenges faced by Committees in their mandates. Read the High Commissioner [...]
OPSC/OPAC 20th anniversary: statement by 4 UN child rights experts
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of [...]
Call to Action: Putting children at the centre of Africa’s prevention and response strategies to COVID-19
Child Rights Connect endorsed the statement from the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) calling upon all stakeholders to take actions to ensure that in all African countries children and their families are protected from the immediate and long-term impacts of the covid-19 pandemic. “The COVID-19 pandemic [...]
Call to put children’s rights in ASIA at the center of the COVID-19 response
Last week, Child Rights Connect, Child Rights Asia, Joining Forces and ECPAT International co-signed a joint statement to call on two intergovernmental regional bodies, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and their respective Member States, [...]