In this opinion piece for Chile’s national survivors’ network, we highlight the essential next steps to securing truth and justice in Latin America’s clergy abuse scandal, discussing what’s necessary and what’s feasible.
As the world faces up to the challenges of dealing with the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, CRIN is producing a series of features exploring how the pandemic and the measures to prevent its spread impact the human rights of under-18s.
With Covid-19 coverage focusing more on the negative impact the pandemic is having on citizens worldwide, here we swap ‘what’s gone wrong’ with ‘what’s gone right’, as we take a brief look at creative and considerate initiatives that have also come out of the pandemic.
What is the impact on the mental health of under-18s in a country that spends less than one percent of its health budget on mental healthcare? CRIN spoke with Kavita Mangnani, clinical psychologist and director of the restorative care programme at HAQ-Centre for Child Rights in Delhi.
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected children’s social and economic rights directly and indirectly beyond what we could have foreseen. What are the challenges to achieving these rights for children, and how can they be met during and after a pandemic?
Yujin Kim, a member of Youth 4 Climate Action Korea, reflects on the need to treat the climate crisis as urgently as any pandemic, and include young people - who are the biggest stakeholders - in developing an equitable recovery and development policy.
CRIN is monitoring policy developments and recommendations on children’s rights in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This page includes recommendations by international, regional and national human rights bodies and organisations on a wide range of issues.
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced many people to move their lives almost exclusively online. What are the concerns around the collection of children’s data and their surveillance?
In March 2020, CRIN joined the Digital Maker Collective at the Tate Modern’s Tate Exchange developed a series of workshops and talks introducing the general public to children’s rights and the digital environment.
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NEW PROJECT: We’re launching the a project on children’s access to justice for their environmental rights! It focuses on 43 countries globally and we’ll be looking at how the law can better protect children’s environmental rights, how children can access the courts in environmental cases and what remedies courts can impose to protect these rights.
ISSUES: for the range of children’s rights issues CRIN works on, visit our Issues page. We focus on the issue that are emerging or neglected in mainstream human rights work. At times this means being seen as controversial or radical for disturbing the status quo, but we will not shy away from the things that need to be challenged.
Shamima Begum was recruited by ISIL when she was 15 and left the UK for Syria. In 2019 the Home Secretary deprived her of her citizenship and this week the Supreme Court hears her appeal. In this FAQ we explain the case and what is at stake.