How to Use United Nations Human Rights Resolutions to Advance Children's Rights

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Manuals, Toolkits and GuidanceHow to Use United Nations Human Rights Resolutions to Advance Children’s RightsPublication year: 
2022
English, French,Spanish,Arabic,Turkish
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PDF (1.1 MiB)
Publisher: 
How to Child Rights series
Every year, United Nations (UN) intergovernmental bodies, such as the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council, adopt several resolutions negotiated among States, which include political expressions and policy recommendations on issues relating to international law, human rights, peace, justice, and security. These documents, which are not always common knowledge and can be difficult to access, can be extremely useful in supporting and advancing your work on children’s rights at all levels. 
This guide aims to inspire and enable civil society practitioners to make the most of human rights resolutions adopted by the UN to advance children’s rights, especially in their countries. To that end, it provides a step-by-step plan of action, case studies and practical tips and tools to help you on this journey.
Who is this guide for? 
This guide aims to assist all civil society organisations (CSOs), human rights defenders, and practitioners, whether they are familiar with the UN human rights system or not. It is designed so that you can access the different sections you need according to your knowledge and experience of the UN human rights system. 
Depending on the resources, size, network and priorities of your organisation or coalition, you may be able to undertake all, or some of the activities suggested in the guide. 
The focus of the guide
This guidance focuses on UN human rights resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) which may be relevant to children’s rights, but it can generally apply to other resolutions or conclusions adopted by other bodies of the UN system relevant to human rights (e.g. the UN Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, and the Commission on the Status of Women) and regional human rights bodies. 
This guidance is developed as part of the How to Child Rights series, which is a series of practical, high quality, tried and tested tools and guidance on new and emerging themes related to children’s rights developed by civil society for civil society. The purpose of the series is to support effective programming and advocacy for children’s rights across the civil society sector.
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Anita Goh
2 Publications
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How to use United Nations Human Rights Resolutions to Advance Children’s Rights
Annexe 1: What is the UN General Assembly? What is the UN Human Rights Council?
Annex 2: How to find relevant UN human rights resolutions, how they were  adopted and how your State engaged with their development
Template 1: Email to disseminate information about the adoption of a resolution
Template 2: Letter for outreach to State officials to follow up on a resolution
How to Child Rights launch 7 Webinar powerpoint slides
Collection of experiences shared during the webinar, from speakers and participants
Questions and Answers from Webinar on How to use UN Human Rights Resolutions to Advance Children’s Rights
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French
7 Documents
Comment faire progresser les droits des enfants avec les résolutions des nations unies relatives aux droits de l’homme
Annexe 1 – qu’est-ce que l’assemblee generale des nations unies ? Qu’est-ce que le conseil des droits de l’homme des nations unies ?
Annexe 2 – comment trouver les resolutions pertinentes des nations unies en matiere de droits de l’homme ? Comment sont-elles adoptees et comment votre état a-t-il participe a leur elaboration ?
Modele 1 : courriel de diffusion d’informations sur l’adoption d’une resolution
Modele 2 : lettre destinee a contacter des fonctionnaires afin d’assurer un suivi sur une resolution
Questions et réponses du webinaire
Recueil d’expériences et de conseils  partagés lors du webinaire, par les conférenciers et les participants
Spanish
5 Documents
Cómo utilizar las resoluciones de derechos humanos de las naciones unidas para promover los derechos de la niñez
Anexo 1: ¿qué es la asamblea general de las naciones unidas? ¿qué es el consejo de derechos humanos de las naciones unidas?
Anexo 2: cómo encontrar las resoluciones de derechos humanos de la onu pertinentes, cómo se adoptaron y cómo se comprometió su estado con su desarrollo
Plantilla 1: correo electrónico para divulgar información sobre la adopción de una resolución
Plantilla 2: carta de difusión a los/as funcionarios/as del estado para el seguimiento de una resolución
Arabic
1 Documents
أسئلة وأجوبة الويبينار
Turkish
5 Documents
Birleşmiş Milletler İnsan Hakları Kararları Çocuk Haklarını Geliştirmek İçin Nasıl Kullanılır
Şablon 1: Bir Kararın Kabulü Hakkında Bilgiyi Yaygınlaştırmak İçin E-Posta
Şablon 2: Bir Kararın Takibini Yapmak Üzere Devlet Yetkililerine Ulaşmak İçin Mektup
Ek 1 – BM Genel Kurulu Nedir? BM İnsan Hakları Konseyi Nedir?
Ek 2 – İlgili BM İnsan Hakları Kararlarına Nasıl Ulaşılacağı, Bunların Nasıl Kabul Edildiği ve Devletinizin Bu Kararların Geliştirilmesinde Nasıl Yer Aldığı
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How to Child Rights series
Authors
Goh, Anita
Format
PDF
Content type
Manuals, Toolkits and Guidance
Topics
Advocacy, Child Rights Governance, Good Governance Delivering Child Rights, Monitoring and Demanding Child Rights with Children
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Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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Keywords
Child Rights GovernanceCivil society advocacyCivil society follow-upFollow-upOmnibus ResolutionUnited Nations Human Rights Resolutions
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