OUR APPROACH

Child Rights Connect is a registered network of 86 national and international NGOs committed to all children fully enjoying their rights as defined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Through Child Rights Connect, member organizations become a more powerful global voice for child rights.

Child Rights Connect holds special ECOSOC consultative status at the United Nations.

MISSION

To facilitate the promotion, implementation and monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. 

Child Rights Connect works through its Secretariat and thematic working groups to carry out its main activities, which include:

• Supporting national and international NGOS and the Committee on the Rights of the Child to monitor and implement the CRC and its Optional Protocols;
• Developing legal instruments on child rights (including the new Optional Protocol to the CRC on a communications procedure);
• Strengthening the capacity of national child rights NGOs and coalitions;
• Producing practical tools, such as reporting guides and factsheets, for engaging effectively with international human rights mechanisms;
• Mainstreaming child rights in the broader human rights system.

STRATEGIES AND OBJECTIVES

The strategic objectives of Child Rights Connect are to:

• Enhance the effective engagement of NGOs and other relevant partners in the CRC reporting process and other activities of the Committee on the Rights of the Chid;
• Mainstream child rights in relevant activities of other United Nations human rights mechanisms and procedures;
• Promote the realisation of child rights at national level through the effective implementation of the recommendations and other outputs of the Committee and other relevant international human rights mechanisms;
• Pursue and support international advocacy on priority child rights issues through coordinated action with members and partners.

 STRATEGIC PRIORITIES 2010-2014 

 

1. Enhance the effective engagement of NGOs and other relevant partners in the CRC reporting process and other activities of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
2. Mainstream child rights in relevant activities of other United Nations human rights mechanisms and procedures.
3. Promote the realisation of child rights at national level through the effective implementation of the recommendations and other outputs of the Committee and other relevant international human rights mechanisms.
4. Pursue and support international advocacy on priority child rights issues through coordinated action with members and partners.

• For further information, read our Five-Year Strategic Plan