On 14th June 2019, the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee), the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and Child Rights Connect organized a technical meeting to fol

The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified international human rights instrument, with 196 States parties. During its 76th session, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the body of independent experts responsible for review

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child General Comment No. 19 on Public Budgeting for the Realization of Children’s Rights is the first UN document to provide detailed guidance to states on their legal obligation to invest in children. Since its adoption

A statement of support from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to the side event 'A world without violence against children'    http://resourcecentre.savethechildren.se/start/child-protection-post-2015,   held in the framework of the 8th session

Adopted by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in February 2013, General Comment No. 16 addresses the state obligations regarding the impact of businesses on children’s rights. It is one of the most recent pieces of international law available on

The present general comment seeks to ensure the application of and respect for the best interests of the child by the States parties to the Convention. It defines the requirements for due consideration, especially in judicial and administrative decisions

Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child provides: “1. States Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the views of the chil

This General Comment, from the Committee on the Rights of the Child, focuses on corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment, which are currently widely accepted and practiced forms of violence against children. The Committee is is

When a State ratifies the Convention on the Rights of the Child, it becomes obligated under international law to implement it. The Committee on the Rights of the Child has drafted this general comment to outline States parties’ obligations to develop and

This General Comment is from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child's thirty-ninth session, 17 May-3 June 2005 and relates to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The objectives are to draw attention to the particularly vulnerable s