Date: 28th May 2020
Category: Policies & procedures, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Other human rights treaties and mechanisms

This media guide provides information on the newly appointed Special Rapporteurs and Independent Experts, outlining their profile, role and how you can contact them.

Date: 1st May 2020
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Closing date: 31st May 2020

Date: 9th April 2020
Category: Policies & procedures, General principles, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

Closing date: 22nd July 2020

Date: 11th March 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Funding, General measures of implementation, General principles, Other human rights treaties and mechanisms, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Special protection measures

More than 50 charities and experts contributed to the report which considers the extent to which children in Scotland are able to exercise their human rights as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

Date: 19th November 2019
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Respect for the views of the child

Children’s Rights Connect has published an analysis highlighting how the UN Committee has addressed children’s participation and empowerment of children human rights defenders (CHRDs) during its 82nd session.  

Date: 7th October 2019
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

The UNCRC Secretariat has produced a child-friendly presentation of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child members.

Date: 18th September 2019
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

The UK has changed the procedure that it will follow when reporting to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The UK previously followed the standard reporting procedure but opted into the simplified procedure in August 2019.

Date: 14th August 2019
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

Child Rights Connect (CRC) has published a series of case studies on NGOs’ and National Human Rights Institutions’ activities engaging with specific recommendations of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Date: 30th July 2019
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Other human rights treaties and mechanisms

The meeting on 1-2 July 2019 gathered NGOs from across the world to discuss mechanisms to strengthen UN Treaty Bodies, ahead of the 2020 review process.

Date: 15th July 2019
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

Child Rights Now! has published a report on the status of children’s rights in 17 countries, highlighting the critical steps needed to realise these rights.

Date: 15th July 2019
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Other human rights treaties and mechanisms

Following their 31st meeting last week in New York, the 10 chairpersons of the UN treaty bodies have issued a Position Paper on the future of the treaty body system.

Date: 25th June 2019
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, General principles, General measures of implementation

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is now publishing on its website a table with the summaries of adopted decisions on individual communications under the Third Optional Protocol of the UNCRC and the follow-up status by States. 

Date: 25th June 2019
Category: General measures of implementation, General principles, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

Notes from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child roundtable have been published. The Round Table raised serious concern regarding the UN Budget crisis, which the roundtable refers to as an “attack to the Treaty Bodies” and the possible cancellation of the third session as having a “strong impact on the backlog of the work of the CRC Committee and other Treaty Bodies”.

Date: 24th June 2019
Category: Incorporation, General measures of implementation, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Policies & procedures, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

Together, along with our civil society partners, has written to the First Minister calling for a strong and effective legal framework to progress human rights in Scotland.

Date: 14th June 2019
Category: General measures of implementation, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

The 2018 DGD outcome report is adopted! We are delighted to announce that the CRC Committee has adopted the 2018 DGD outcome report on Protecting and Empowering Children as Human Rights Defenders!

Date: 5th June 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation, Other human rights treaties and mechanisms, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Funding

A new report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) explores the impact on equality and human rights of the UK government proposal of replacing EU Structural Funds with a ‘UK Shared Prosperity Fund’ when we leave the EU.

Date: 5th June 2019
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

Together, along with Child Rights Connect, presented a joint submission with the Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education of the Dublin City University Institute of Education and  the Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s concept note for a General Comment on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment.

Date: 16th May 2019
Category: General principles, General measures of implementation, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

In 2019, the Committee on the Rights of the Child celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted on 20 November 1989.

Date: 14th May 2019
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

Together’s Director and Legal and Policy Manager attended Child Rights Connect's 2019 General Assembly in Geneva last week.

Date: 30th April 2019
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Other human rights treaties and mechanisms, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, General principles, General measures of implementation

In his next thematic report to the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders will address the topic of impunity for human rights violations and abuses committed against human rights defenders. This report will be presented to the 74th session of the General Assembly in October 2019. Deadline: Monday 6th May 2019 This is an opportunity to secure a chapter on children.