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.
Faced with climate collapse in the next decade, it is children today, but also future generations who have the most to lose. Yet they themselves and their rights are mostly absent from policy discussions and global climate and human rights forums. We want to change this and include children and truly listen to their ideas - and encourage a more creative and accessible way of seeking solutions to current problems.
The Advancing Child Rights Strategic Litigation Project (ACRiSL) is delighted to invite you to our fourth network event and launch of our research report on ‘Advancing Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice.’ This will take place at 12:30 - 14:00 UK time (GMT +1) online via Zoom on 27 September 2022.
For International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, climate activist and CRIN Climate Adviser Santiago Flores Medina speaks with Futuros Indígenas: one of Latin America's leading networks in the restoration and preservation of Indigenous Peoples’ rights for autonomous identities. The interview highlights how Indigenous resistance is key to driving systemic change.
En ocasión del Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas del Mundo, el activista climático y Asesor Climático de CRIN Santiago Flores Medina conversó con Futuros Indígenas, una de las redes líderes de Latinoamérica en la restauración y preservación de los derechos a las identidades autónomas de los pueblos indígenas.
This interview with Fithriyyah Iskandar, an environmental youth activist and doctor from Indonesia, covers the intersections of human and planetary health issues; the barriers that marginalised communities face when trying to engage with the judicial systems; and the problems with tokenistic involvement of children and young people by governments and organisations.
The debate on encryption and children’s rights is often divided between approaches focused on preventing child abuse, versus an emphasis on civil liberties. But this polarisation hides the fact that children’s rights are on both sides of the discourse. Finding common ground is essential to ensuring that children’s rights are protected.
A story published by Vice exposes the scale of bullying, abuse and sexual assault in British armed forces training, with the youngest recruits, and especially young women, some of the worst impacted. One of the veterans speaking out in the article is Joe, who joined the Army Foundation College in 2013 aged 16. Read his full story here. [Content warning: descriptions of abuse and sexual assault].
An unaccompanied minor files complaints at the UN Child Rights Committee over abuses he was subjected to at the hands of border guards. His submission is supported by ECCHR and Blindspots.
The UN’s child rights committee has urged Chile’s government to establish a truth commission in response to the systemic abuse of children across institutions.
We are supporting the development of survivor-led networks in Latin America to campaign for truth, justice and reform. Survivors in the region and abroad have spearheaded calls for national inquiries, legal reform and redress schemes, with the momentum building in Latin America in recent years. Our work responds to survivors’ call for support to boost their work through partnerships, funding and capacity building so that governments can no longer ignore their demands.
The issue of encryption and online child sexual abuse is currently strongly divided between approaches centred on child protection and those focused on privacy. Through this project we want to facilitate a nuanced discussion which ensures that children’s rights are considered and protected on all fronts, and help develop a legal and policy response that is based on collective efforts.
Preventing Safeguarding finds that, despite being sold as a way of safeguarding children, the UK’s Prevent strategy - aimed at “preventing people being drawn into terrorism” - puts policing priorities above their rights and welfare.
Children and young people have been at the forefront of environmental activism. But how does the law protect their rights? We look at whether the laws and policies in 43 countries around the world make it possible for children to access their environmental rights, and want to start conversations about what needs to improve.
Should the armed forces recruit children under the age of 18? You decide…
Too many states are failing to take a human rights-based approach to children detained in North East Syria. This needs to change - these children can and must be brought home.