Brexit: Children and Young People’s Panel on Europe launch report

Date: 28th February 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation

The Children and Young People’s Panel on Europe launched its report last week. The report sets out Panel members’ views and priorities around Brexit, including recommendations for decision-makers.

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Together submits evidence on Scotland’s progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Date: 28th February 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Civil Rights and Freedoms

Together has responded to a call for evidence on Scotland’s progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs were launched in 2015 and set out 17 Goals with the aim of encouraging all countries to implement the necessary environmental, economic and social change to achieve peace and prosperity for all.

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Consultation: Protective orders for people at risk of domestic abuse

Date: 26th February 2019
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Domestic abuse, Protection from abuse or neglect

Closing date: Friday, 29th March 2019. The consultation seeks views on proposals to create new protective orders that could be used to keep people at risk of domestic abuse safe by banning perpetrators from their homes and on also seeks views on whether changes are needed to the current system of exclusion orders which allow a victim of domestic abuse to apply to suspend the right of their partner to live in the family home.

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Report on differing models of child primary health care across Europe

Date: 21st February 2019
Category: Health and health services, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) project has spent three years identifying and critically assessing the differing models of child primary health care that are used across Europe.

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Second annual First Minsters Question Time (FMQT) Next Generation is back this April

Date: 21st February 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Access to appropriate information, Equal protection from violence, Freedom of association and peaceful assembly, Freedom of thought, conscience and religion

Closing date: Sunday, 3rd March 2019. FMQT Next Generation is giving children and young people another opportunity to question the First Minister in person, or submit questions, ensuring that the voices of children and young people are heard in Scottish politics.

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UNHCR Report: Remove child migrants from detention centres

Date: 21st February 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation

The UNHCR published a new report urging authorities to end detention of children for immigration purposes, integrate children in their national systems, and provide them with the guardianship systems.

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MUTINY! The CRIN Code: Child’s Rights International Network has mapped out a new way of promoting children’s right

Date: 21st February 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

CRIN is a creative think tank that produces new and dynamic perspectives on human rights issues, with a focus on children’s rights. CRIN is saying goodbye to business as usual and introducing the CRIN code. The code sets out their values, principles and vision for a rights-respecting world and how they intend to get there.

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University of Edinburgh & University of Strathclyde: Call for proposals regarding the emotional relations of children’s participation rights

Date: 21st February 2019
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing date: Friday, 15th March 2019. This Special Issue proposal for Emotion, Space and Society is seeking proposals that explore the role of emotional relations in how children and young people’s participation rights are embraced, contested, realized, resisted and experienced.

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Call for comments: Committee on the Rights of the Child seeks comments on the implementation of the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Date: 21st February 2019
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing date: Sunday, 31st March 2019. The Committee invites all interested parties to comment on the current draft of the Guidelines. Comments are welcome on all aspects of the draft Guidelines, and after due consideration of inputs provided, the Committee will decide on the contents of the final version of the Guidelines. All comments should adhere to the following:

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Gender Recognition Act reform and young people: Rights, capacity and welfare

Date: 21st February 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

This report by Dr Kath Murray examines issues raised by proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in Scotland in relation to young people up to the age of 18 years. Part one looks at competing rights arguments, and the implications of the self-declaration of legal sex on the rights of young people and children to access single-sex spaces. Part two looks at recent trends among young people and children seeking support for gender-identity issues and discusses the gaps in the current medical evidence base. Against this complex and under-researched background, Dr Murray concludes that it is not clear whether formal recognition of gender identity by the state from the age of 16 is in the best interests of young people. She suggests that that greater emphasis should be now placed on welfare principles, and that any reform proposals should be robustly risk-assessed, ahead of the legislative process.

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