Highlights
The Commonwealth’s legacy
Countries in the Commonwealth, where over a third of the world’s children live, have legal systems rooted in British colonial law, with many allowing for life imprisonment and corporal punishment of children. In response, here is the sort of apology the Commonwealth should issue.
The Holy See and the UN
In 2014 the UN reviewed the children’s rights record of the Holy See, giving it five years to improve. This briefing follows up where the Holy See has not, detailing its failure to implement the UN’s recommendations and even how it actively seeks to undermine certain children’s rights.
What Lies Beneath: Silence
For the first edition of our new magazine series, What Lies Beneath explores the role silence plays in human rights. It identifies the role each of us can play in confronting the issues as it tackles them in open conversation, inviting people to think critically about the norms we live by.
And Beyond
Many more of us can play a positive role in advocating for a better world for children. We therefore want to open up discussions around children’s rights for all audiences, presenting and unfolding bold ideas on issues which—whether we know it or not—affect children and young people.
And Beyond is a creative project by CRIN, which looks at the world through stories, humour, artwork and our vision for the future.
What Lies Beneath
So many rights violations continue unabated worldwide largely owing to factors that lie in the shadows unchallenged. And children, just like all humans, are affected by these, if not more so because they are children.
A new magazine series, What Lies Beneath is a creative project intent on openly talking about such issues, which keep us from evolving as a species. It’s a conversation where the language is accessible, the content is provocative, and readers are encouraged to think critically about the world and its norms and to start their own conversations.
