The CRIN team, alongside Yola from Black Girls Rising in South Africa and Kartik from India, attended the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, where they shared insights on the event's focus on the triple planetary crisis and its significance for children's rights.
Read MoreThe Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) is hearing a case on how human rights are protected, within the context of the climate emergency, under the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR). We made a submission with the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC), as part of the ACRISL project, focusing on children’s rights.
Read MoreCRIN 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.
Read MoreAcross 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.
Read MoreBy joining the largest network of environmental citizens’ organisations in Europe, we hope to bring children's rights among the core priorities of the environmental movement in and beyond the European Union.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreDurant cet entretien, nous avons échangé avec les Jeunes Ambassadeurs pour le Climat (JAC), une association de jeunes Français visant à sensibiliser la population aux problématiques climatiques et environnementales.
Read MoreIn this interview we spoke with climate activist and law student Nicki Becker, we explore what the research tells us about the status of children’s climate justice in Argentina, but also what the reality is beyond the research and where the gaps are.
Read MoreEn esta entrevista con la activista climática y estudiante de derecho Nicki Becker, exploramos lo que la investigación nos dice sobre el estado de la justicia climática para los niños, niñas y adolescentes en Argentina, pero también cuál es la realidad más allá de la investigación y dónde se encuentran las brechas.
Read MoreIn this interview we spoke with Jeunes Ambassadeurs pour le Climat (JAC), an association of young people in France aiming to raise awareness and educate people on climate and environmental issues.
Read MoreCRIN’s goal at COP is to ensure that children’s voices, perspectives and knowledge are included and that children are able to participate in the decisions that impact them. But our stance is clear: there is no climate justice without human rights.
Read MoreFaced with climate collapse in the next decade, it is children today, but also future generations who have the most to lose. During COP27 we’ll be spotlighting what children have to say on the climate crisis, and why more needs to be done to involve them.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreEn 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreEvery 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.
Read MoreToday 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreThe Committee on the Rights of the Child has published its decisions in its first climate justice cases. Read our take on what they could mean for the struggle for climate justice.
Read MoreIn this opinion article, Nigerian child rights activist and CRIN climate adviser Aisha Saleh explains how climate change is increasing poverty and in turn child marriage, and that she responds by educating the parents about the implications of underage unions.
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