Child Human Rights Defenders

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Implementation Guide

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The Rights of Child Human Rights Defenders

Interactive Implementation Guide

Children are human rights holders, human rights claimants and human rights defenders; children in every country and in every region are standing up for children’s rights and human rights in general. Children who act as human rights defenders are shaping understanding of human rights across the world.

CHRD Implementation Guide

This implementation guide:

  • Clarifies the definition of ‘child human rights defenders’.
  • Analyses the Articles of the CRC that are most relevant to CHRDs with reference to the Declaration, drawing on the lived experiences of CHRDs.
  • Provides guidance on how a human rights framework for CHRDs should be implemented.

 

1.

Introduction

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2.

Definitions (Art. 1 CRC and Art. 1 DHRD)

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3.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders: Rights Relevant to CHRDs

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3.1

The Four General Principles (Art. 2, 3(1), 6, 12 CRC and Art. 8, 12, 16 DHRD)

3.2

Parents’/Guardians’ Rights and Duties (Art. 3(2), 5, 18(1-2) CRC)

3.3

Education Rights (Art. 29 CRC and Art. 15-16 DHRD)

3.4

Protection From Harm (Art. 19, 36, 37, 39 CRC and Art. 9, 10, 12 DHRD)

3.5

Civil & Political Rights (Art. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 CRC and Art. 5, 6, 7, 12, 12(2), 14(a), 16(1-2) DHRD)

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Child-Friendly Justice: Monitoring, Redress, Remedies

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4.1

National Human Rights Institutions 

4.2

Right To A Remedy At The National Level

4.3

Arrest, Detention and Criminal and Administrative Sanctions

4.4

Engagement with International Bodies

4.5

Child-Friendly Justice: Summary of Implementation Measures

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Implementing a Rights-Based Approach for CHRDs (Art. 4 CRC and Art. 2 DHRD)

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5.1

Law and Policy (Art. 3, 9 DHRD) 

5.2

Data Collection and Monitoring

5.3

Public Awareness and Training for Professionals

5.4

Access to Resources

5.5

Civil Society

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Conclusion

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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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