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.
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…
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.
As we say goodbye to CRIN's Director of almost two decades, here a few words from her on what it's been like and what's to come.
Every year on Earth day, it’s common to see messaging around recycling, saving electricity, walking to work and all the other ways in which we as individuals can reduce our impact on the environment. But individual action is not enough to tackle the scale of the climate crisis. As the recent IPCC report made clear, activism is key to tackling climate change.
Preventing Safeguarding finds that, despite being sold as a way of safeguarding children, the Prevent strategy puts policing priorities above their rights and welfare.
Today we launch our project Children’s Access to Environmental Justice, in which we look at children’s environmental rights, and the laws and systems that affect them. We want to have conversations about how the law can be used to make children’s environmental rights a priority, and make it easier for those involved in youth climate activism to understand and use the law.
In this interview with Pedro Hartung, we hear about how the Alana Institute uses legal tools to address the fact that Brazilian children, and others in countries that have been historically colonised, are the most affected by climate injustice and violations due to lasting effects of colonial practice.
Three parents have today spoken out about the treatment their children experienced as recruits at the Army Foundation College. CRIN has written an open letter to Ofsted, challenging the College’s ‘Outstanding’ grade in the face of abuse allegations.
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.