Just launched: child rights jurisprudence database and trends pages!
Child Rights Connect is excited to launch the child rights jurisprudence database and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) trends page! The database gathers Views adopted by UN treaty bodies on individual communications submitted by children, or on behalf of...
Adopted decisions of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child are out! // CRC 82nd session – recap
On 27 September 2019, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child wrapped up its 82nd session. This week it published all of its adopted decisions under the OPIC – here’s what you need to know. During the 82nd session (9-27 September 2019), the UN Committee on the...
GREAT NEWS: Maldives becomes 46th State to ratify the OPIC!
On 27 September 2019, Maldives ratified the UNCRC Third Optional Protocol on a Communications procedure! It is the 46th country to have ratified the OPIC, the first in South Asia and the third in Asia more generally, to become a State party to the instrument. The OPIC...
Children Human Rights Defenders take landmark action on climate crisis through OPIC
Child Rights Connect welcomes the lodging this week of a child-led complaint to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning the global climate crisis. On 23 September 2019, 16 children human rights defenders filed a landmark complaint concerning the climate...
