Stepping up joint efforts to bring the Caribbean up to speed on the realisation of children’s rights
High-Level conference identifies key priorities to advance children’s rights in the Caribbean Participants focused on the need of international and regional human rights mechanisms to foster child rights promotion On December 7th 2021, Child Rights Connect co-organised a high-level conference on Advancing children's rights in the Caribbean by using the international and regional human [...]
New! Child-friendly International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)
On Human Rights Day 2021 and on the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA), we are launching, with IMADR, a new child-friendly International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and its standards. This new resource seeks to raise awareness of international human [...]
Join the Joint Position Paper on key recommendation on Child Rights and Family Reunification!
The Human Rights Council (HRC) will dedicate its next annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child to take place in March 2022 on the theme “the rights of the child and family reunification”. As per usual practice, [...]
A big win for child rights as the Council recognises that having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right, and establishes a Special Rapporteur dedicated to climate change!
The main UN human rights body, the Human Rights Council, recognized for the first time that having a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is indeed a human right! Through resolution 48/13, overwhelmingly voted in favor on 8 October, the Council emphasized the importance [...]
Milestone decision by the UN Secretary-General in response to our position paper on child rights mainstreaming
After only four weeks since the submission of Child Rights Connect’s position paper to his Office, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is taking action to start addressing the lack of a system-wide approach to child rights in the UN. From the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination, Mr. Volker Turk, addressed a letter to Child Rights Connect’s President, Maria [...]
Child rights mainstreaming: Time for action by UN leadership
The current gaps in child rights mainstreaming at the UN can no longer be overlooked. Child rights mainstreaming across the whole UN system is a necessary journey that needs to start now and must engage children. Read the summary of [...]
The CRC Chair called for child rights mainstreaming during the UN General Assembly
The Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Mikiko Otani, delivered a statement at the 76th session of the General Assembly in New York, on 7th October 2021. The Chair took this opportunity to recall the high-level [...]
Takeaways From #DGD2021 on Child Rights and Alternative Care
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Day of General Discussion (DGD) 2021 on child rights and alternative care took place on 16th and 17th September. It was a momentous occasion and the first time that the Committee [...]
A child rights response to Our Common Agenda: Endorse our call on the UN to put child rights at the core of its action
On 10 September 2021 the UN Secretary General has presented his report on Our Common Agenda: Responding to Current and Future Challenges. The report, together with the SG call to action for human rights, is further evidence of the need [...]
Child Rights Connect welcomes the holding of the 88th session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in-person
At the opening of the 88th online session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Child Rights Connect welcomed the holding of the in-person session and the efforts made to review a higher number of States: [...]
This page responds to the child advisors’ call for a platform to monitor the follow-up to the Day of General Discussion (DGD) on Protecting and Empowering Children as Human Rights defenders. It showcases direct follow-up activities to the 2018 DGD as well as examples of the different ways in which the global movement for children human rights defenders is growing at different levels and in many different forms.
