Creatures that had been dead for hundreds of millions of years would suddenly come alive again. Tiny plants and animals that floated in the ocean, more multitudinous than anyone could comprehend, which over time had died, sank to the ocean bed, were buried, crushed, melted, compressed and simplified as the aeons passed.
Read MoreMy name is James Douglas, I’m 16 and from Northern Ireland. I have albinism and the group I am linked with is Angel Eyes NI which helps young people and families affected by visual impairments.
Read MoreIf there’s one phrase we’ve heard in response to Be More Pirate, it’s that it gives people permission. Permission to speak up, to tell the truth or to do something they were previously afraid of doing. It provides a language and an opportunity to reclaim the power they didn’t even know was absent.
Read MoreYou discover an injustice. You think something should be done about it. You want to do something about it. You’re a teenager or an adult, a diplomat or an NGO or someone or something else. You ask: what can I do? Aided and abetted by Nick Martlew, author of ‘Creative Coalitions’, a handbook for people seeking to work with others to change the world.
Read MoreTo produce the edition “Power” of the magazine, we read, listened to, discovered, and were inspired by the following materials.
Read MoreAnything 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 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).
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