New guidelines on implementing the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Date: 7th October 2019
Category: UNCRC Optional Protocols and General Comments

The guidelines aim to further implementation of the UNCRC and the Optional Protocol, in light of developments in the digital environment and its emerging linkage to sexual offences against children.

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Children and young people file landmark climate change complaint to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Date: 7th October 2019
Category: Optional protocol on a communications procedure

The official complaint, submitted by sixteen child petitioners, protests lack of government action to address the climate crisis.

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UN treaty bodies issue joint statement on human rights and climate change

Date: 7th October 2019
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Five UN committees have issued a joint statement, urging countries consider their human rights obligations when reviewing their climate commitments.

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UNICEF publishes a discussion paper on Children’s Rights and Online Gaming

Date: 7th October 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Equal protection from violence, Protection of privacy, Children in situations of exploitation, Non-discrimination

The paper, drawing from desk research and stakeholder consultations, is a first attempt to apply a child rights framework to improve the online gaming environment for children.

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Child-friendly bios of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child members

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.

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Consultation on independent child trafficking guardians

Date: 18th September 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Right to life, survival and development

Closing date: 17 th November 2019

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Call for input: Report on Realizing children’s rights through a healthy environment

Date: 18th September 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) calls for submissions that would help prepare the report on “Realizing the rights of the child through a healthy environment”.

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Conference in Geneva to commemorate the UNCRC 30th anniversary

Date: 18th September 2019
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The free three-day international conference will take place at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva on November 18, 19 and 20, 2019.

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New global study on children deprived of liberty

Date: 18th September 2019
Category: Restraint, Civil Rights and Freedoms

The UN General Assembly recently published a report summarising the detailed findings of the Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty.

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EU memo on embedding children’s rights perspective in policy and decision-making

Date: 18th September 2019
Category: General measures of implementation

The memo provides an overview of the extent to which children’s rights are promoted and taken into account in policies and practice at national and European Union (EU) level.

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