Call at the Council to ensure civil society space, especially for children!
On the occasion of the Interactive dialogue with Special Rapporteur on the Rights to peaceful assembly and of association, that took place on the 9 and 10 July during the 44th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), we delivered a joint statement on behalf of the network to highlight the need to protect children’s civil and [...]
2020 Annual Day on the Rights of the Child: Realizing the rights of the child through a healthy environment
Children environmental human rights defenders are heard at the Annual Day on the Rights of the Child! On Thursday 1 July 2020, the Human Rights Council held the Annual full day meeting on the Rights of the Child focusing on Realizing the rights of the child through a healthy environment. For the [...]
Child Rights Connect 2020 GA
“All of us can stand up for human rights – and you are doing that”, says the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to about 80 children’s rights defenders from around the world at Child Rights Connect’s first online General [...]
A joint Call to Action for the 2020 HRC Annual Full-Day Meeting on the Rights of the Child
In the occasion of the 2020 Annual Day on the Rights of the Child on “Realizing the rights of the child through a healthy environment”, we are pleased to launch a Joint Call to Action! “For the annual full-day meeting [...]
New Child Online Protection Guidelines empowering children to exercise their rights online!
Yesterday the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) agency of the United Nations launched its revised Child Online Protection (COP) Guidelines targeting children, parents & educators, the industry, and policymakers. Together with ECPAT International and Western Sydney University, Child Rights Connect led [...]
? Call for contributions for the UN Treaty Body review process
As co-facilitators of the UN human rights treaty body review process, the Permanent Missions of Switzerland and Morocco to the UN are calling for written contributions, open to all relevant stakeholders. Although there are no restrictions to the inputs, some [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
