Shamima Begum was recruited by ISIL when she was 15 and left the UK for Syria. In 2019 the Home Secretary deprived her of her citizenship and in February 2021 the Supreme Court decided on her appeal. In this FAQ we explain the case and why it matters.

The UN’s child rights committee has handed down its first decision about the rights of a child of an LGBT couple. It found that Finland failed to consider the best interests of the child of a lesbian couple when assessing his asylum request, in a case in which CRIN and partners intervened.

We’re pleased to announce that youth climate organisers have joined CRIN as Advisers on our work on environmental issues. This is the first time we’ll be collaborating with under-18s in this way, but the playing field is an equal and democratic one and we’re holding ourselves accountable to them.

The UK government has made it clear that it has no interest in conducting an objective and impartial review of its Prevent counter-terrorism policy. We cannot be complicit in a process that serves only to rubber stamp a fundamentally flawed strategy.

Schools in Brazil have been shut because of the Covid-19 pandemic for longer than in most countries. In this guest article, the Alana Institute in Brazil makes a case for using green and open spaces in children’s education, showing how one city is already planning for it once it is safe to return to school.

In this opinion piece for Chile’s national survivors’ network, we highlight the essential next steps to securing truth and justice in Latin America’s clergy abuse scandal, discussing what’s necessary and what’s feasible.

As the world faces up to the challenges of dealing with the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, CRIN is producing a series of features exploring how the pandemic and the measures to prevent its spread impact the human rights of under-18s.

With Covid-19 coverage focusing more on the negative impact the pandemic is having on citizens worldwide, here we swap ‘what’s gone wrong’ with ‘what’s gone right’, as we take a brief look at creative and considerate initiatives that have also come out of the pandemic.

What is the impact on the mental health of under-18s in a country that spends less than one percent of its health budget on mental healthcare? CRIN spoke with Kavita Mangnani, clinical psychologist and director of the restorative care programme at HAQ-Centre for Child Rights in Delhi.

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected children’s social and economic rights directly and indirectly beyond what we could have foreseen. What are the challenges to achieving these rights for children, and how can they be met during and after a pandemic?