Child Rights Connect webpage dedicated to COVID-19 responses
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is having a major impact on the lives of children and families. Given the large amount of resources developed by different organizations, at Child Rights Connect we want to help you in your search for information. For this purpose, we have pulled together resources from our members and partners, as well as some relevant press releases and statements on the topic and divided them into different sections. We seek to provide clarity by offering an overview of the responses to the disease by various organizations. We hope this will help civil society and the general public to quickly review information that is of interest. We will be updating the webpage regularly as the crisis unfolds.
Child Rights Connect staff in Geneva is working from home following the Swiss government guidelines. You can reach us via email.
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Members States putting human rights at risk by delaying UN membership payments
In the midst of a global human rights crisis, affecting millions of children worldwide, Child Rights Connect calls on government to pay their regular budget assessments in full and to stand up for the values upon which the United Nations [...]
Joint Statement to the Human Rights Council: Realising Children’s Rights to a Healthy Environment
On Monday 21st September, during the Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on Hazardous Substances for the ongoing 45th session of the Human Rights Council, the Child Rights Connect Working Group on Environment delivered a joint statement, along with [...]
States and civil society join forces to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the OPAC and OPSC
2020 marked the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In commemoration of this anniversary, the Permanent Mission of Belgium together with the Permanent Mission of Uruguay took [...]
Co-Facilitators report on the UN Treaty Body review process 2020 includes concrete recommendations!
After taking informal consultations with States in both New York and Geneva, as well as with the OHCHR, the treaty bodies, and the civil society, the Permanent Missions of Switzerland and Morocco, as Co-Facilitators of the UN Human Rights Treaty [...]
Child Rights Connect welcomes the online session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
At the opening of the online session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Child Rights Connect called for collaboration with and support to the Committee to ensure its ability to effectively discharge its full mandate. [...]
TB-Net participation in the consultation with co-facilitators on the state of the HR treaty body system
The informal consultation of the co-facilitators of the process of the treaty body system review took place on 28 August 2020. Watch the morning session with States and the afternoon session with stakeholders. TB-Net members OMCT, GI-ESCR and IMADR, as [...]
The Child Rights Connect child advisors mobilise in response to COVID-19
Just weeks after a new global Children’s Advisory Team was established at Child Rights Connect (an international network of children’s organisations with a Secretariat based in Geneva), we faced a COVID-19 outbreak. Soon after, the 11 child advisors, based across [...]
The contributions of the Treaty Body Chairs to the 2020 review
Following their annual meeting held 27-30 July, the Chairs of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies sent their written contribution to the co-facilitation process on treaty body review 2020. Among other priorities, the Chairs made the following proposals to strengthen the [...]
Joint call to include children in the list of the young climate leader advisors to the Secretary General of the United Nations
Last Friday, Child Rights Connect together with Save the Children International, Plan International, and World Vision, sent a joint letter calling on the Secretary-General of the United Nations to include children in the list of young climate leaders who will [...]
“Work of human rights treaty bodies at risk”, called the Committees’ Chairpersons at their 32nd meeting
The 32nd meeting of the Chairpersons of the 10 UN Committees took place online from 27-30 July 2020 to deal with the following pressing items: the UN budget crisis, the General Assembly review of the treaty body system in [...]
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.
