What is the Children’s Advisory Team?
Child Rights Connect’s Children’s Advisory Team (CAT) is a global team of child human rights defenders who support Child Rights Connect to shape
and take forward activities on children’s rights. The CAT is part of the structure of Child Rights Connect and renews its mandate every year.
When was the Children’s Advisory Team created?
The first organisational Child Rights Connect Children’s Advisory Team was created and began its activities in February 2020.
Child Rights Connect has created and supported Children’s Advisory Teams in the past, and we have built on the experiences and lessons learned from outgoing Child Advisors!
Some examples of our work in the past is that Child Rights Connect first supported a Children’s Advisory Team of 21 child advisors to be at the core of its activities for the 2018 UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Day of General Discussion (DGD) on Protecting and Empowering Children as Human Rights Defenders. You can find out more about that here! It then supported a global Children’s Advisory Team of 9 child advisors in the development of UNICEF’s official child-friendly UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Take a look for more information here!
Who is on the Team?
Meet our 2024 CAT !
If you want to get to know the 13 current child advisors better, click here.
We developed a child advisor selection process with our outgoing child advisors which you can read here- EN | FR | ES to ensure inclusivity, diversity and fairness. New child advisors will be selected every year.
Each child advisor has a supporting organisation – you can read the Terms of Reference for the supporting organisations here – EN | FR | ES
Check out the incredible intervention of some of our Child Advisors at the UDHR75 initiative for the Voices in defence of human rights high-level event! Or read the webstory on their experience being involved in this initative.
Below you can find some of the blog posts that our child advisors have prepared on topics close to their hearts. We hope you give them a read!
Read Nahia's blog post on the right to health and physical shape here!
Read it here!
What activities have the Child Advisors been working on?
Some initiatives that the Child Advisors have worked on in 2024:
A letter to the High Commissioner on Human Rights on the right to free education.
To learn more about how the Child Advisors were involved in the initiative to create an Optional Protocol to the CRC on free pre-primary and secondary education, click here.
Some initiatives that the Child Advisors have worked on in 2023:
A report about Children’s Vision for Human Rights! Have a read here in English.
The CAT was consulted to provide feedback on the Child-Friendly version of the 2023 Report to the Human Rights Council on child rights & inclusive social protection! Have a read here!
The CAT was consulted to provide feedback on the Child-Friendly version of the United Nation’s Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment N.26! Have a read here!
What activities have previous Child Advisors worked on?
Some initiatives that Child Advisors have worked on in 2020, 2021 and 2022:
A child-friendly Guide on the rights of child human rights defenders plus lots of other resources for CHRDs! Access here!