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Latest campaign news
- Inhuman Sentencing of Children: National campaign launched in Pakistan
- Transparency Campaign: End the crackdown on human rights defenders
- A complaints mechanism for children: draft text to be adopted by the Human Rights Council in June 2011
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Campaigns
- Inhuman Sentencing of Children: CRIN together with other partners has launching a campaign for the prohibition and elimination of inhuman sentencing of children – defined to include sentences of death, life imprisonment and corporal punishment.
- The future of children's rights – in whose hands?
They wield considerable power and influence, and can change the lives of thousands, maybe millions of children. Those nominated to exalted positions within the world of child rights can make a massive difference. But who are they? How are they chosen? And, most importantly, are they the best people for the job?
We have identified a list of key global children's rights positions, listed in order of their due date for renewal or reappointment.
Find out more here.
- Campaign for a complaints procedure under the CRC
A group of agencies are campaigning for the United Nations to establish a communications/complaints mechanism to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Such a procedure would provide a mechanism that would ensure the availability of legal remedies for children at the international level.
In June 2011, the UN Human Rights Council adopted this procedure which is now awaiting adoption by the UN General Assembly.
Read the latest update and the draft here.
See previous campaigns here: http://www.crin.org/petitions/index.asp
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Report to the CRC or the UPR
- Committee on the Rights of the Child:
- Find out when your State's child rights record is up for review by the Committee here.
- Learn how to submit an NGO Alternative report to the Committee on the NGO Group's website here.
- Read other NGO Alternative reports here. - UN Human Rights Council:
- Find out when your State's human rights record is up for review by the Council here.
- Learn how to submit a report on your government's record on child rights to the 'Universal Periodic Review' here.
- Read child rights references in previous UPR reviews on CRIN's country pages here.
For more information on using the UN or regional human rights mechanisms, see our guide here.
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CRIN is publishing a series of toolkits for child rights advocates. View these here.
So far, we have published guides to:
- Advocacy toolkit to end inhuman sentencing of children
- Guide to child friendly Justice
- Using human rights mechanisms (such as the UN and African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child)
- Child rights and the media
- Child rights and strategic litigation
- Challenging discrimination
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