Call for inputs: curriculum, pedagogy and assessment at the service of the right to education

Date: 15th December 2025
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

The Special Rapporteur on the right to education intends to take stock of the implementation of international standards and guidelines, national legislation and policies, as well as promising practices, aimed to ensure that the substantive content of the right to education is conceived, designed and implemented with the view to guarantee the full enjoyment of the right to education for all.

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Eurochild reacts to new Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse

Date: 15th December 2025
Category: Protection from abuse or neglect, Equal protection from assault, Sexual abuse and exploitation

Eurochild has commented on the European Council’s newly agreed position on the EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse (CSAR), marking a big step forward on rules that require online services to prevent, report and remove child sexual abuse material and solicitation of children.

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New report highlights key priorities for human rights incorporation in Scotland

Date: 15th December 2025
Category: General measures of implementation, General principles, Policies & procedures

A new expert briefing commissioned by Human Rights Consortium Scotland (HRCS) outlines key priorities ahead of the planned incorporation of international human rights treaties into Scots law and the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections.

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Children help shape standards

Date: 15th December 2025
Category: Respect for the views of the child, Policies & procedures

The Scottish Social Services Council shared their approach to listening to people with real-life experience to make better decisions.

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The role of youth parliaments in fostering peaceful societies – Hamish’s evidence to the UN Human Rights Council

Date: 15th December 2025
Category: Respect for the views of the child, Policies & procedures

Hamish Nott, a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYP), represented the organisation at the UN Human Rights Council’s Biennial Panel on Youth and Human Rights in Geneva, focusing on how youth parliaments help foster peaceful societies.

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Religious Observance and UNCRC Act amendment Bill: Stage 2 updates

Date: 15th December 2025
Category: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, Policies & procedures

The Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill will be considered at Stage 2 tomorrow, 16 th December 2025. Together is calling on MSPs to back key amendments to strengthen children’s rights protections.

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The State of the World's Children 2025: Ending child poverty

Date: 1st December 2025
Category: Child poverty, Social security

UNICEF firmly believes that after years of effort and research have shown that ending child poverty and improving children’s circumstances is a policy choice and introduces 5 policy pillars needed to reach this goal:

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Unequal Childhoods: rights on paper should be rights in practice - Eurochild 2025 report on children in need across Europe

Date: 1st December 2025
Category: Policy and strategy, Best interests of the child

The Scotland section shows that Scotland continues to make strong commitments to children's rights in law and policy. However, far too many children still face inequality, hardship and barriers to fully enjoy those rights.

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Children and young people call for action at COP30

Date: 1st December 2025
Category: Right to a healthy environment

The letter stated that while nearly thirty years of climate negotiations produced ambitious promises, they failed to deliver the rapid, equitable change needed. Young people pointed to escalating droughts, displacement, extreme heat, and food insecurity as evidence that the climate crisis was not a distant threat but a lived reality.

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UNCRC Virtual Health Conference 2025: Embedding Children’s Rights across NHS Scotland: shared experiences of implementing the UNCRC Incorporation Act

Date: 1st December 2025
Category: Health and health services, General measures of implementation

After the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots law, this conference offered the opportunity to explore how NHS Scotland has responded to its new legal duties to uphold children’s rights across all services and settings.

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