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  • Priority reading: children’s vision for human rights

    Date: 18th December 2023
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: Child Rights Connect

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) celebrates its 75th anniversary in December 2023. This significant milestone provides an important opportunity for world leaders to commit to improving the realisation of human rights in their countries and share ideas for a new vision for the future of human rights.

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  • New report considers benefits of incorporating the Convention against Torture into Scots Law.

    Date: 18th December 2023
    Category: General measures of implementation, Incorporation, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC
    Author:

    This report focuses on the gaps that persist in Scots law in the pursuit of eradicating all forms of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (CIDT). It highlights that despite the existing UK and Scottish implementation measures giving effect to the UN Convention Against Torture (UNCAT), ensuring the general prohibition against torture warrants further attention and action in the Scottish context.

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  • NEW child-friendly resource on the UN Concluding Observations

    Date: 30th October 2023
    Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, General measures of implementation, Civil Rights and Freedoms, UNCRC Optional Protocols and General Comments
    Author: Together

    Together has just launched a child-friendly resource explaining the recent UN Concluding Observations made by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child for the UK and Scottish Government. In partnership with Children’s Parliament, Scottish Youth Parliament and Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland, Together consulted with #TeamScotlandUN in the creation of this child-friendly resource to explain to children and young people these important recommendations for the UK and devolved goverments, to better protect, respect and implement children’s rights and to support their ability to hold Scottish Government and other duty bearers to account. Together would like to send a huge “thank you” to the children and young people who provided us with valuable advice and feedback to help shape the resource.

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  • Together’s consultation response to the new Human Rights Bill

    Date: 5th October 2023
    Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms, General measures of implementation
    Author: Together

    The consultation for the new Human Rights Bill has now closed and you can find our submitted response, offering a children’s human rights perspective, here.

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  • New Guide: How to Write a Child-Friendly Document

    Date: 5th October 2023
    Category: Access to appropriate information, Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
    Author: Save the Children

    Children have a right to seek and receive information about things that affect them, especially about their human rights. To do this properly, content must be produced in a child-friendly way that is accessible, readable and approved by children. This how-to guide by Save the Children shows you how to create child-friendly versions of your work.

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  • New book: ‘Play and Health in Childhood: A Rights-Based Approach’

    Date: 5th October 2023
    Category: General measures of implementation, General principles
    Author:

    Upstart has launched a new book written by Julia Whitaker and Alison Tonkin, showing how having fun, experiencing pleasure and knowing joy in childhood are crucial to a child’s health and development.

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  • New UNCRC web-based resource

    Date: 19th June 2023
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author:

    A new UNCRC web-based resource is now available! Understanding Children's Human Rights: A Guide for Public Services in Scotland has been created by the Improvement Service in collaboration with Children's Parliament, Education Scotland and Together.

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  • Guidance and toolkit: How to Advance Children’s Rights using Recommendations from United Nations and Regional Human Rights Monitoring and Review Processes

    Date: 13th February 2023
    Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, General measures of implementation
    Author: Save the Children

    Recommendations and Concluding Observations are essential tools for civil society to use in their monitoring of countries’ implementation of human rights treaties. We must know how to use these effectively through follow up and tracking measures to ensure countries are making progress to fulfil their human rights obligations and to advance children’s rights. Save the Children has created this useful how to guide which includes follow up ideas and useful recommendation tracking templates.

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  • Understanding Children’s Human Rights: A Guide for Elected Members in Scotland

    Date: 9th November 2022
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: Together

    Together, Children's Parliament, The Improvement Service and Education Scotland have collaborated to create this new resource aimed at Elected Members in Scotland who are interested in learning more about children’s rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

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  • Human Rights Act Briefings

    Date: 2nd August 2022
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author:

    Together continues to campaign to save the Human Rights Act. Get up to speed by reading these briefings.

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  • How to advance children’s rights using recommendations from United Nations and regional human rights monitoring and review processes

    Date: 8th July 2022
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: Save the Children

    This guide aims to empower and inspire civil society practitioners to follow-up, use and make the most of the recommendations made by the United Nations. These recommendations can be embedded into daily work to advance realisation of children’s rights across the globe.

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  • Training tool to introduce you to children’s rights

    Date: 9th June 2022
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author:

    This training tool aims to further people’s understanding of children’s rights. It does this by providing an overview of children’s rights and introduces rights-based frameworks and legislation.

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  • New blog about the consultation on enhanced data collection for improvement

    Date: 9th June 2022
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author:

    Sue Palmer from Upstart Scotland outlines the significance of child development in the attainment gap and the use of Early Development Instrument. This blog hopes to highlight issues within the National Improvement Framework consultation and identify areas in which respondents should raise in their response.

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  • Catch up on ‘How to Advance Children’s Rights webinar using the Simplified Reporting Procedure’ webinar

    Date: 9th June 2022
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: Child Rights Connect

    If you missed the third webinar forming part of Child Rights Connect’s How to Child Rights series, then you can catch up here!

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  • Updated information on the Secretary-General’s Guidance note on Child rights Mainstreaming

    Date: 3rd May 2022
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: Child Rights Connect

    Access a recording, PowerPoint presentation and meeting notes sharing information on the development of the Secretary-General’s Guidance note on Child rights Mainstreaming. You will also discover what future steps are planned.

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  • How to child rights

    Date: 7th April 2022
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: Child Rights Connect

    ‘How to child rights’ is a series of practical, tried and tested tools and guidance on new and emerging themes related to children's rights. The purpose of the series is to support effective programming and advocacy for children’s rights across the civil society sector.

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  • British Institute of Human Rights’ Communities of Practice

    Date: 8th July 2021
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: British Institute of Human Rights

    BIHR has launched its Communities of Practice platform which acts like a social media networking site where you can have your say on key human rights issues that affect your life and work.

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  • New podcast on the Human Rights Act

    Date: 25th March 2021
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: Human Rights Consortium Scotland

    A new episode of the Human Right’s Consortium’s podcast considers the ongoing review of the Human Rights Act.

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  • Resource on child-friendly complaints, remedy and redress

    Date: 25th March 2021
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: University of Edinburgh

    A recording of the webinar ‘Implementing Children’s Rights in Scotland – Developing Systems of Child-Friendly Complaints, Remedy and Redress’ held on the 4th February 2021 is now available.

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  • Get involved in Young Carer Action Day!

    Date: 28th January 2021
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author:

    Young Carer Action Day is taking place on 16th March 2021. This year’s theme is Protect Young Carers’ Futures and will highlight the incredible skills young carers have developed through being an unpaid carer – including resilience, time-management and empathy. A range of free resources are now available online to help people get involved.

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