Children stand up for human rights around 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
December marked the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR75). Child Rights Connect worked closely with the UN Office for Human Rights to ensure that child participation was a key aspect in as well as in the high-level closing event in Palais [...]
CRC session 95
At the opening of the 95th CRC session, Child Rights Connect delivered a statement on behalf of its network: Distinguished members of the Committee, representatives of UN agencies, ladies and gentlemen, As a strategic partner of the Committee, Child Rights Connect stands ready to continue [...]
What is happening with the Pact of the Future?
At the end of 2023, Child Rights Connect and Terre des Hommes International sent a written submission for the Zero Draft for the Pact and the Summit of the Future. The Pact for the Future is an action-oriented outcome document helping to achieve the two [...]
UN General Assembly groundbreaking resolution with 193 States committed to implementing children’s rights in the digital environment!
Amidst some disagreement over language, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted by consensus the Resolution on the Rights of the Child in the digital environment in November 2023. Worldwide, around 2.2 billion children and young people, especially girls and adolescents, are disproportionately impacted by the [...]
A young person brings the demands of children and young people to the Aarhus Convention during the 8th meeting of the Task Force on Access to Information!
The eighth meeting of the Task Force on Access to Information under the Aarhus Convention and International Workshop on Access to Product Information was held in Geneva on the 9th and the 10th of November 2023. Child Rights Connect and its Working Group on environment [...]
World Children’s Day – Time to celebrate and reflect
*Updated on the 21/11/2023 On 20 November, we celebrate World Children’s Day and commemorate the 34th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most widely ratified international instrument, enshrined, for the first time [...]
How to stop failing boys on issues of sexual abuse and exploitation: The call from ECPAT International Global Boys Initiative to provide gender-sensitive services to boy survivors
Breaking the Silence: Unmasking Boys' Struggles and Transforming Harmful Gender Norms Society places expectations on boys to be invulnerable, demonstrate strength, be self-sufficient, and when faced with adversity, to control their emotions and solve their problems alone. Deviating from these norms, for example, [...]