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“Changing the narrative means changing the narrator, putting children’s voices at the centre”, said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at our 40th anniversary conference on 26 May

In a context of growing anti-child rights rhetoric globally, on 26 May 2023, more than 200 children, including many of our child advisors, as well as child rights experts and practitioners (among whom around 74% of girls and women) gathered in Geneva or online as part of our 40th anniversary [...]

2023-11-15T15:46:28+01:0030 May , 2023|

Kick-starting celebrations of our 40 years of existence at our General Assembly meeting, with the Network reaching 108 organisations!

On 25 May 2023, members and observers of our Network convened for the annual statutory meeting of our General Assembly, which constituted this year a special moment as our organisation celebrates its 40 years of existence! Close to 50 representatives from local, national, regional and international child rights organisations gathered [...]

2023-07-14T09:32:07+02:0025 May , 2023|

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 first time ever, two children environmental human rights defenders spoke up [...]

2020-07-07T11:54:26+02:007 July , 2020|

The Human Rights Council celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child with a High-Level Panel on children’s rights mainstreaming within the UN

Child Rights Connect and its members addressed high-level representatives of the three UN pillars to call for better mainstreaming of a child rights-based approach in the work of the United Nations, including through establishment of a UN-wide Child Rights Strategy. “Although [the Convention on the Rights of the Child] is [...]

2020-04-01T11:17:41+02:001 April , 2020|

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 call for a real change.” said Solal, the child environmental [...]

2021-02-09T10:26:00+01:0019 March , 2020|
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