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. […]
The Human Rights Council celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child with a High-Level Panel on children’s rights mainstreaming within the UN
Child Rights Connect and its members addressed high-level representatives of the three UN pillars to call for better mainstreaming of a child rights-based approach in the work of the United Nations, including through establishment of a UN-wide Child Rights Strategy. “Although [the Convention on the [...]
Advancing children’s rights relating to the environment: event to kickstart discussions on the 2020 Annual Day on the Rights of the Child
“Younger generations are afraid of not having the possibility to hope for a better future. I think everyone is aware of the threats represented by environmental harms but there is a lack of concrete actions from the international community. We call for a real change.” [...]
Child Rights Connect Working Group on Environment statement at HRC dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on enviroment
On Monday 2nd March 2020, our member Terre des Hommes delivered a statement on behalf of the Child Rights Connect working group on children and the environment during the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on environment, at the 43rd Human Rights Council session. The [...]
Child Rights Connect calls on UN to develop a Child Rights Strategy
During today’s Annual High-Level Panel Discussion on Human Rights Mainstreaming, this year focussed on mainstreaming children’s rights within the UN system through a child rights-based approach, Child Rights Connect called on the UN to develop a Child Rights Strategy that applies to all UN bodies [...]
Children from around the world have their say on the right to peaceful assembly
In November 2019, the UN Human Rights Committee invited comments on the Revised Draft General Comment No. 37 on Article 21 (Right of Peaceful Assembly) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. For Child Rights Connect, what mattered most was that children could [...]