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.
This page compiles resources in a time of serious violations of children’s rights. Resources include those related to legal mechanisms and challenges, ongoing campaigns and initiatives, and educational and creative resources. We will keep this page updated.
To protect children’s rights, policymakers, civil society and others need to engage fully with the complexities of the EU’s draft law to prevent and combat child sexual abuse.
This piece explains the main technologies for detecting known and unknown/new child sexual abuse material, as well as grooming, in the context of the EU draft Regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse.
With the situation in occupied Palestinian territories and Israel deteriorating by the hour, we cannot be silent.
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.
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.
CRIN welcomes positive progress in terms of recognition that children’s rights are not just impacted by climate breakdown, but that they should be part of the solutions. But a continued failure to take the action required to stem the source of the crisis - fossil fuels - will continue to undermine children’s rights and future wellbeing. Read the statement from the Children’s Rights Climate Movement, which CRIN is a part of, on the COP28 outcomes.