GENEVA (18 March 2024) -- Twelve months into the armed conflict in Sudan, 24 million children are at risk of a generational catastrophe, and their rights to life, survival, protection, education,...
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Child Rights Committee statement on children in Gaza (08 February 2024)
DELIVERED BY Ann Skelton, Chair of the Committee AT the CRC press conference on 8 February 2024 No child should grow up in fear, pain and hunger. Yet, today, no child in Gaza is free from fear, pain...
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Advocacy Brief: End Immigration Detention of Children (February 2024)
INTRODUCTION IMMIGRATION DETENTION, IS NEVER IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD AND CONSTITUTES A CHILD RIGHTS VIOLATION. It is a form of violence that impacts a country’s capacity to achieve the...
End to killing of children in armed conflict, UN committee urges
GENEVA (20 November 2023) With one out of every five children worldwide living within armed conflict zones, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child marks World Children's Day in a sombre mood and...
UN Child Rights Committee condemns killing of children in Gaza Strip
GENEVA (1 November 2023) – Grave human rights violations against children are mounting by the minute in the Gaza Strip, and there are no winners in a war where thousands of children are killed. The...
Child rights and the environment: Launch of General Comment No. 26 on children’s rights and the environment, with a special focus on climate change
DELIVERED BY Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights AT 94th session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child LOCATION Geneva My greetings to you all. I very much regret that I am not...
Children in Northeast Syria must be urgently repatriated: UN experts
GENEVA (31 March 2023) – UN experts* today called for the urgent repatriation of children from Northeast Syria as they enter their fifth year of detention, saying children in conflict zones must be...
High Commissioner opens the 92nd Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
DELIVERED BY Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights AT Committee on the Rights of the Child Madam Chair, Distinguished members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Colleagues and...
Peru: El Comité de la ONU insta a garantizar el derecho de expresión de niños, niñas y adolescentes e investigar los actos de violencia que han provocado la muerte de niños durante las protestas
LUGAR GINEBRA El Comité de Derechos del Niño de la ONU expresa su profunda preocupación por la información recibida acerca de los acontecimientos acaecidos como consecuencia de la crisis...
Peru: UN Committee urges guaranteeing children's right to expression and investigating violence that has led to the deaths and injuries of children during protests
Peru must stop and investigate violence against children during protests, UN committee urges GENEVA (16 December 2022) – The UN Child Rights Committee urged Peru to take immediate action to end...
Joint Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and the Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Mikiko Otani on the occasion of Human Rights Day
**NEW YORK/GENEVA, 8 December 2022 **– “As the world observes Human Rights Day on 10 December, UNICEF and the Committee on the Rights of the Child remind world leaders that child rights are human...
Une action immédiate est nécessaire pour sauver la vie des enfants en Haïti face à la triple menace du choléra, de la malnutrition et de la violence, avertit le comité des droits de l'enfant des Nations Unies
GENÈVE (1er novembre 2022) - Le Comité des droits de l'enfant est profondément préoccupé par les graves violations des droits de l'enfant en Haïti. Dans un contexte de recrudescence de la violence,...
Immediate action needed to save children’s lives in Haiti amid triple threat of cholera, malnutrition and violence, UN child rights committee warns
GENEVA (1 November 2022) - The Committee on the Rights of the Child is deeply concerned about the severe violations of children’s rights in Haiti. Amid a surge in violence, the rights of children to...
Iran: End killings and detentions of children immediately, UN Child Rights Committee urges
GENEVA (17 October 2022) – As at least 23 children were reportedly killed by Iranian security forces and hundreds more were injured, detained and tortured during recent peaceful protests, the UN...
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Finland violated rights of Finnish children detained in northern Syria by failing to repatriate them, UN committee finds
GENEVA (12 October 2022) — Finland’s failure to repatriate Finnish children who have been held in Syrian camps in life-threatening conditions for years violated their right to life, as well as their...
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Joint statement by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Ukrainian children with disabilities
URGENT CALL TO ACTION REGARDING UKRAINIAN CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN RESIDENTIAL CARE INSTITUTIONS. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons...
Children have specific rights and should be protected at all times, UN experts
GENEVA/NEW YORK/VIENNA (6 October 2022) - With pandemics, complex humanitarian emergencies, and extreme climate-related crises posing significant global challenges, UN rights experts* remind all...
Experts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Praise South Sudan’s Child Act, Ask about the Recruitment of Children by Government Forces and Armed Groups, and about School Feeding Schemes
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the initial report of South Sudan, with Committee Experts praising South Sudan’s child act, and raising questions about...
Experts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Commend Ukraine on its Commitment to Child Rights, Ask about the Mental Health of Children in Light of the War and the Evacuation of Children with Disabilities
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fifth to sixth periodic report of Ukraine under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Committee Experts...
Myanmar: Crisis taking an enormous toll on children, UN committee warns
GENEVA (29 June 2022) – Time is running out to save Myanmar’s stricken generation, the UN Child Rights Committee warned today, urging the international community to take swift action to protect the...