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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Child Rights Connect deplores the grave violations of children’s rights in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory
Child Rights Connect joins the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and UN independent experts in strongly condemning the grave violations of children’s rights in the context of armed conflict in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.[1] The [...]
It is time for the child rights movement to take bold action to give space to children, we raised at the CRC 94 session
At the opening of the 94th CRC session, Child Rights Connect delivered a statement on behalf of its network: Distinguished members of the Committee, As most of you know, 40 years ago a group of pioneering NGOs created Child Rights [...]
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.
