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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Preparations advance for the CRC session in Samoa!
In March 2020, the Committee on the Rights of the Child will hold an in-country/region session for the very first time in the Treaty Bodies system. The extraordinary session will take place in Apia, Samoa from 2 to 6 March, [...]
Child Rights Connect statement at the opening of the 83rd session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
At the opening of the 83rd session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Child Rights Connect this morning recalled the continued relevance of the Convention and the work of the Committee, and the partnership of the [...]
Find out how to concretely and effectively engage with the Committee on the Rights of the Child through our CRC Reporting Minisite!
Child Rights Connect developed a CRC Reporting mini-site, an online tool for civil society actors to learn the basics and why engage with the Committee on the Rights of the Child. As the Committee is currently implementing two methodologies in parallel, [...]
The CRC Committee to hold its 84th session in Samoa!
In March 2020, the CRC Committee will hold an additional session in Samoa to review the States of Cook Islands, Micronesia and Tuvalu, and the pre-session of Kiribati! This will be the first in-country session ever organised by a Human [...]
Call for child advisor applications: New Child Rights Connect Children’s Advisory Team 2020-2021! ?
We are now accepting applications from children to become child advisors on our new Children’s Advisory Team 2020/2021! Child Rights Connect is setting up a new global Children’s Advisory Team, which will become a permanent group within the organisation and [...]
Strengthening children’s civil and political rights in domestic law through the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders: Child Rights Connect at the ROCK conference 2019!
How can we ensure that children’s civil and political rights are not forgotten when we talk about incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law; what is the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (the [...]
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.
