Child Human Rights Defenders

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Implementation Guide

5.4. Access to Resources

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DHRD Article 13

Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to solicit, receive and utilize resources for the express purpose of promoting and protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms through peaceful means, in accordance with article 3 of the present Declaration.

Many CHRDs rely on local, national and international civil society organizations for support for their activity. However, there is increasing concern about a lack of funding for civil society organizations and for children’s organizations in particular. Moreover, funding for children is more likely to be given for specific projects and protection rather than for initiatives designed to support their activity as HRDs. Funding for protection and funding for HRDs activities must be available to children. The ability to seek and receive resources for human rights activity is especially important for CHRDs who may find it difficult to form their own organizations and to seek and receive money because they are children. States should also ensure that children are able to access and take part in civil society organizations and that these organizations are not prohibited from seeking and receiving funding nationally and internationally.

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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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