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, [...]
A Story of the CRC Committee and its outreach to the Pacific Islands
During the week of 2 March 2020, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (the Committee) held an extraordinary outreach session in Apia, Samoa – the first ever regional session of the United Nations Treaty Bodies. Child Rights Connect engaged and supported this [...]
COVID-19 pandemic and child rights
Child Rights Connect today endorsed an open letter from the Joining Forces alliance to Presidents, Prime Ministers, Governments and Mayors. […]