We are a creative think tank producing new and dynamic thinking on human rights, focusing on children and young people. 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.
An invitation to play with, break with and reshape how we engage with the rights of under-18s
Explaining our rationale, new approach and next steps on girls' human rights.
CRIN works across the full scope of children's rights, but we focus on issues that are emerging or neglected in mainstream human rights work, even if this proves controversial or radical for disturbing the status quo.
More than 1,000 organisations have been calling on UN Member States to recognise the right to a healthy environment. A new statement has been delivered during the 46th session of the Human Rights Council, which is still open for new signatories.
We’re considering what to do with CRIN’s old library on children’s rights and we’re inviting our users to share any suggestions. Some years ago we archived the database and stopped updating it, as it had become untenable. But it has historical value, so we didn’t get rid of it.
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.
As an organisation that works on all children's rights, we must acknowledge that climate and environmental degradation affect all other rights, as without a planet to live and thrive in, what’s the point of rights? But more than recognising this reality, we must act on it. Read our new climate justice strategy.