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Committee on the Rights of the Child
18 January 2021
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today opened its online limited eighty-sixth session.
Luis Ernesto Pedernera Reyna, Chairperson of the Committee, said the Committee had been working on the Third Optional Protocol, and General Comment 25, and would spare no efforts to discharge its mandate. Because of COVID-19, pre-existing problems had worsened. Child poverty was increasing and the closure of schools had had a devastating impact, increasing dropout rates. This had resulted in what the United Nations Secretary-General had called a “generational catastrophe.” The likelihood of sexual abuse of children was now greater. Children were more vulnerable to threats posed by the Internet. Children must be listened to, and their proposals should be heard as well. They were the silent and silenced victims of the pandemic.
7 January, 2021
Guidance on the Rights of Child Human Rights Defenders, written by Professor Laura Lundy from the Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast, has recently been launched by Child Rights Connect.
The launch comes after a year-long consultative process in collaboration with Child Rights Connect, Queen’s University, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee), the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human rights defenders (SR on HRDs), many international child and human rights organisations and experts and child human rights defenders (CHRDs).
clarifies:
what is distinctive about CHRDs and the contexts in which they act,