2023 in review: Elevating the voices and rights of child human rights defenders across the globe to make a change
Download our visual about these results here! Children acting as human rights defenders remain often ignored, neglected and intimidated We cannot say it enough: whether we call them child human rights defenders (CHRDs), child activists or changemakers, more and more [...]
Joint letter on the cancellation of the May pre-session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Joint letter on the cancellation of the May pre-session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to Permanent Missions to the United Nations in Geneva and New York and the Secretary-General of United Nationas: Excellencies, The undersigned [...]
An empowering journey towards developing the first-ever report on child and youth human rights defenders
On 12 March 2024 the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Ms Mary Lawlor presented the first ever UN report on child and youth defenders. Child Rights Connect worked closely with the Special Rapporteur to ensure that [...]
ADRC 2024: Children speak up on their right to inclusive social protection and their role in ensuring child rights mainstreaming at the UN.
This year’s Annual Day on the Rights of the Child reached the highest level of child participation so far! This edition, the discussions concerned two topics: Inclusive Social Protection and Child Rights Mainstreaming at the United Nations. On 14 March, [...]
A huge victory for child human rights defenders: explicit recognition and protection under the new Law on Children’s Rights of the Republic of Moldova
The long-awaited Law on Children’s Rights of the Republic of Moldova entered into force on 21 December 2023[1]. Child Rights Connect with its partner organisation the Child Rights Information Center (CRIC), as part of the project “Advancing the rights, empowerment and [...]
Updates on the UN’s 2024 Annual Day on the Rights of the Child
The 2024 edition of this UN Human Rights Council’s annual event will take place on the 14th March 2024 in Geneva and discuss children rights and inclusive social protection. On the 14th March 2024, from 11:00 to 17:00 CET, The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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.