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1. Child human rights defenders can act alongside adults who support them; they can also act on their own/with other children.
2. The Declaration on Human Rights Defenders lists the human rights for persons acting as defenders who are over-18 years of age.
3. Children have special rights as listed in an agreement among governments called the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which recognises that children often need more support and protection than adults, including when they act as human rights defenders.
4. Being a child human rights defender means when children are taking part in activities that put them at risk of danger.

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Abbreviations

CHRD 

Child Human Rights Defender

CRC

Convention on the Rights of the Child

CRIA

Children’s Rights Impact Assessment

CRPD

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

HRD

Human Rights Defender

ICCPR 

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

NHRI

National Human Rights Institution

OHCHR

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

OPIC

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure

OSCE/ODIHR

Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

SRSG VAC

Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children 

SRSG CAAC

Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict

The Committee

Committee on the Rights of the Child 

The Declaration or DHRD

The United Nations Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

The Special Rapporteur

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders

UN

United Nations
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