OPIC Anniversary: 5 Years since Children can Lodge Complaints with the UN about Violations of their Rights
14 April 2019 marks 5 years since the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure (OPIC). The Protocol empowered children allowing them to complain directly, and for the first time ever, to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child about […]
Roundtable Discussion: “Towards a better implementation of the UNCRC through its Third Optional Protocol on a Communications Procedure”
Palais des Nations Avenue de la Paix 8-14, Geneva, SwitzerlandOn the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the entry into force of the OPIC and the 30th anniversary of the UNCRC, the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Child Rights […]
Girls not Mothers: Strategic Litigation for Social Change
Child Rights Connect Rue de VarembĂ© 1, Genève, SwitzerlandPlanning the strategy to bring an issue to the attention of an international human rights mechanism, and choosing the mechanism (regional, UN, etc.) for where to present a complaint are tough decisions. Child Rights Connect hosted Global Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights together with in-country partners, to discuss, for the first time ever, […]
