We believe children deserve to have their rights fully recognised and respected, just as all humans do.
We want to ask hard questions about how we live, what needs to change and how we can contribute to a planet where all the intersections of our identities can thrive.
CRIN and over 500 organisations have joined an open call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Israel to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and further loss of innocent lives.
Across the EU dangerous chemicals in toys put children at risk because corporate interests are placed above children’s wellbeing. This could be about to change as the EU reform toy safety laws. We explain how decision makers can ensure that the new laws put children’s rights first.
Not enough has been done to prevent the recurrence of child sexual abuse by the United Nations peacekeepers. Another scandal cannot be tolerated and abuse must stop.
Our new report reveals that veterans aged 16-19 have been three times as likely as same-age civilians from socially deprived backgrounds to end their lives. We look at why early enlistment heightens risk of mental ill-health.
In 2019, the UK government commissioned an Independent Review of its counter-terrorism strategy, Prevent. After a series of controversies and delays, the findings and recommendations, as well as the government’s response, were published in February 2023. We explain what this means for children’s rights, and what happens next.
Recognising the disproportionate impact of the UK government’s Prevent strategy on how Muslim children and children of Asian ethnicity are able to access their civil and political rights, the The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child have called for an immediate end to the targeting of specific groups of children by counter-terrorism measures.
The European Union is about to make important decisions to reform its pesticide laws, which currently still expose children to harmful chemicals and don’t fully protect children’s health and their environment. We explain how the EU can better protect children by making children’s rights central in the new regulations.
In a joint public campaign with Human Rights Watch, War Child UK and Reprieve, we call on the UK government to repatriate British families who are being unlawfully detained in northeast Syria. Join us in calling for action.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on the UK government to raise the minimum age of military recruitment from 16 to 18 and to address numerous complaints of the sexual assault, rape and abuse of young recruits.
Not enough has been done to prevent the recurrence of child sexual abuse by the United Nations peacekeepers. Another scandal cannot be tolerated and abuse must stop. Our strategy sets out what it would take to fight the impunity for child sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN peacekeepers and is available in English, Spanish or French.
Veterans aged 16-19 have been three times as likely as same-age civilians from socially deprived backgrounds to end their lives. The Pressure Cooker: Child recruitment and suicide in the British armed forces looks at why such early enlistment heightens risk of mental ill-health.
We are advocating for children’s right to be protected from dangerous chemicals. We do this by encouraging the European Union (EU) to better uphold children’s rights under the EU laws regulating harmful chemicals.
It sets out our values, our principles and our vision for a rights-respecting world and how we intend to get there, in the hope that others will collaborate or simply take inspiration and start their own rebellion.
With the situation in occupied Palestinian territories and Israel deteriorating by the hour, we cannot be silent.