Anything that’s new always starts life the same way, as a spark in our mind. We ask ourselves: what if? It’s our imagination in action, it takes us forward, feeds our creativity and gives us immense creative power. Coming up with ideas is what we humans do, as sure as we breathe.
Read MorePeople under the age of 18 are largely seen as not having any power, let alone being mature enough to use it. “We are, after all, just children,” said Greta Thunberg, ironically alluding to this common preconception. But if 2019 has shown us anything, it’s that under-18s — just like anyone else who’s passionate about something, regardless of their age — can go against what’s expected of them, and not do as they’re told.
Read MoreIn the first entry of the CRIN Diaries, a series of articles in which staff members reflect on aspects and experiences of their work in human rights, Sabine Saliba, regional representative in the MENA, tells us about the role of women and young people in shaping the revolution in Lebanon, the country where she was born and raised and currently resides.
Read More“The Indian Act put us in residential schools, it took away our languages, our culture… I like the term ‘reparative act’ because what I do in the process is I repair an incident that happened in history.” In conversation with Linda Young, artist and Traditional Knowledge Keeper for the Saskatchewan Public School Division in Canada.
Read MoreJust like dropping a pebble into water and watching as the ripples expand across it, an event or action, too, can create motion beyond its first impact or influence, as it grows outwards, ringing in all directions, eventually arriving at our inspiration and rousing us to act as well.
Read MoreWith everything happening around the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), rather than celebrate we thought we’d look ahead and share the CRIN team's thoughts on what we see as key for the CRC in the coming years, along with our biggest fear and our hope for the future.
Read MoreSome schools and local authorities in multiple countries have imposed sanctions or threatened to do so on students who wish to take part in the Fridays for Future school climate strikes. We call on teachers, schools, local authorities and parents to support the schoolchildren who choose to exercise their right to peaceful protest.
Read MoreCRIN will be joining the global climate strike on 20 September. It’s the first time the organisation as a whole will take part on a working day. But we won’t just be attending the strike in person; we’re also blacking out our website. To explain our intentions, there are four reasons why we’re joining the climate strike.
Read MoreThe British army is intentionally targeting young people from deprived backgrounds for the roles carrying the greatest risks in war. This new report examines the targeting of these children and the effects of this practice on the 16 and 17 year-olds who are recruited.
Read MoreCRIN has joined the EDC-Free Europe coalition representing more than 70 environmental, health, women’s and consumer groups across Europe, all sharing the same concern about hormone disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and their impact on human health and the environment.
Read MoreTo produce the edition Silence of the magazine, we read, listened to, discovered, and were inspired by the following materials.
Read MoreTo produce the edition Silence of the magazine, we read, listened to, discovered, and were inspired by the following materials.
Read MoreThis guest article, written by Play the Game at the Danish Institute for Sports Studies, examines how, despite sport being hailed and promoted as a good for children and society at large, there is a growing awareness on the downsides of sport that sometimes turn children into victims rather than winners.
Read MoreCRIN co-hosted a round-table discussion on children and young people's right to demand action and justice for the climate crisis. Together with the environmental law organisations CIEL and Earthjustice, we heard from climate youth groups in Switzerland about their experiences of organising strikes, making calls to policy makers, and sitting at the negotiation table with local authorities.
Read MoreTwo guest articles about the grassroots resistance to the campaign to circumcise men and boys across Africa. The VMMC campaign (voluntary medical male circumcision) targets African communities with the goal of creating and maintaining an 80 percent male circumcision rate across the continent. Many men refuse circumcision, so in 2016 infant boys were added to the campaign.
Read MoreThe UK is the only major military power and the only State in Europe to enlist 16-year-olds into its armed forces. Following the closure of Child Soldiers International, the campaign to raise the UK’s military enlistment age to 18 will move to the Child Rights International Network (CRIN).
Read MoreThis guest article by the Bank Information Center (BIC) reflects on how one World Bank-funded project in Uganda gave rise to sexual abuse of girls and what was done about it. The BIC advocates on reforming international financial institutions to make sure that the development projects they fund do not undermine human rights or harm the environment.
Read MoreThis week CRIN hosted a temporary art exhibition and discussion in Geneva on toxic exposure in our everyday lives and what is being done to raise awareness of these issues. The event was hosted at the Bocal Local, an eco-responsible grocery shop in Geneva, while the meetings of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions took place in the city.
Read MoreCRIN will be participating in this year’s Venice Biennale as part of the ARTIVISM exhibition, in collaboration with the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. The event will explore creative responses to large-scale identity-based violence and mass atrocities.
Read MoreIn our latest case study on the stories behind strategic children's rights litigation, we examine several challenges to Russia's "gay propaganda" laws. Passed using the protection of children as an excuse to silence public discussions and positive messages about LGBT issues, these laws effectively deny freedom of expression and access to information on gender and sexual diversity.
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