📣 Join us on 18 December 2024 for a side event at the 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 organised by Defence for Children International - International Secretariat. ℹ️This discussion, co-organised by UNICEF with support from the Governments of Spain and Sweden, will explore the critical need to strengthen #data on children in #detention. ❗𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠. 📌 PRI will contribute to the discussion alongside partners, advocating for prioritising diversion, non-custodial alternatives, and ending child detention in alignment with international human rights standards. 🔴 Olivia Rope, PRI's Executive Director, will present the #DataMosaic Tool as part of this important dialogue. *Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/etWWXTdd 🗓 18 December 2024 🕔 17:00 – 18:30 CET (Geneva) / 11:00 – 12:30 EST (New York) 📍 In-person (CICG, Geneva) or online 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eHS9xx-d 🔗 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐙𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: https://lnkd.in/excZSNh2 Meeting ID: 923 0641 6217 | Passcode: 150241 #JusticeForChildren #EndChildDetention #HumanRights #GlobalConference
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Did you know? UNHCR estimates that 122.6 million people remained forcibly displaced worldwide due to war, persecution, violence, and human rights violations💔 🌍 Today, we join the global community in honoring Human Rights Day. It's a reminder that equality, dignity, and freedom are rights that belong to everyone. we’ll continue to innovate, create, and communicate in ways that uphold these principles. Let’s stand together for a better world! #HumanRightsDay #HumanRightsDay2024 #EqualityForAll #StandForRights #HumanRights #HumanRightsDay2024
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📢 Eurochild and Terre des hommes have launched Daphne-CHILD, a new 3-year subgranting and capacity-building programme to support local civil society organisations in tackling violence against children. 🌱 Local organisations will receive grants and capacity-building support, empowering them to create child-friendly, rights-based services. This initiative focuses on children in marginalized situations, ensuring they have a platform to shape their protection services. 👧👦 Children’s voices are crucial in designing effective child protection systems. This programme will also ensure children are at the heart of discussions. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/davzRSKi 🇪🇺 The Daphne-CHILD programme is funded by by the European Union’s Citizen, Equality, Values and Rights Daphne-Programme. #EndViolenceAgainstChildren #ChildProtection #CSOs #Eurochild #TerredesHommes #EU #DaphneProgramme #ChildRights #CommunitySupport
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[News] On 29 April 2024, the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, supported by the Embassy of Switzerland in South Africa, organised an essential workshop focusing on early warning and urgent response to xenophobic violence. This workshop, part of our broader anti-xenophobia project, aimed to strengthen the protection of migrants' rights, especially in the context of the upcoming South African elections. Xenophobic violence often spikes during election periods due to inflammatory rhetoric. This workshop was timely, fostering critical discussions and network-building among grassroots organizations, migrant-led groups, and rights advocates. We were honoured to have contributions from Prof Frans Viljoen and Ms Shireen Mukadam, emphasising the need for collaborative efforts and empirical evidence in our interventions. Key takeaways included the importance of reshaping narratives about migrants, enhancing legal frameworks, and coordinating advocacy efforts. The Centre for Human Rights remains committed to these goals and will continue to advocate for a robust early warning and urgent response mechanism. #HumanRights #Xenophobia #MigrantsRights #EarlyWarning #CommunityEngagement #Advocacy Read more: https://lnkd.in/d4YhKSae
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📢 Eurochild and Terre des hommes foundation have launched Daphne-CHILD, a new 3-year subgranting and capacity-building programme to support local civil society organisations in tackling violence against children. 🌱 Local organisations will receive grants and capacity-building support, empowering them to create child-friendly, rights-based services. This initiative focuses on children in marginalized situations, ensuring they have a platform to shape their protection services. 👧👦 Children’s voices are crucial in designing effective child protection systems. This programme will also ensure children are at the heart of discussions. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/davzRSKi 🇪🇺 The Daphne-CHILD programme is funded by by the European Union’s Citizen, Equality, Values and Rights Daphne-Programme. #EndViolenceAgainstChildren #ChildProtection #CSOs #Eurochild #TerredesHommes #EU #DaphneProgramme #ChildRights #CommunitySupport
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🚨 As the debate over the proposed repeal of the law banning female genital mutilation (FGM) in The Gambia intensifies, we are deeply concerned by the potential reversal of decades of work invested in protecting the rights and dignity of women and girls. We stand in solidarity with survivors, activists, civil society organizations, faith-based organizations, and all those working tirelessly to end this human rights violation. #StandUp4HumanRights and see the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UNICEF joint statement: unf.pa/3Tw2MOo #EndFGM #GlobalGoals
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Last December, in a significant stride towards amplifying the voices of #survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), the Dr. Denis Mukwege Foundation organised the SEMA regional retreat in Nairobi. This second regional retreat united survivors from Eastern, Central and Western #Africa, providing them with an opportunity for unified reflection, strategic discussion, peer learning and provision of support for each other. A pivotal moment of the retreat was the public event “African Launch of the Guidebook on State obligations for CRSV”. The Guidebook sets out existing State obligations for CRSV across prevention, justice, accountability, humanitarian response and reparations. Part of the panel presenting this #legal tool, Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) discussed with colleagues important questions, such as the role of the African regional human rights system in responding, eradicating and enhancing accountability for CRSV; and how to ensure a more appropriate, robust, and timely response by States, aligning with their international obligations as outlined in the Guidebook. #Semanetwork 👀👇🏽 More information about the retreat (and a very nice video) below.
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❌Conflict ❌Persecution ❌Human rights violations. Around the world, people continue to be #ForcedToFlee. Many seek safety in their own country instead of crossing borders. Find out more: unhcr.org/globaltrends #GlobalTrends 📈2013: 33.3 million internally displaced people 📈2023: 68.3 million internally displaced people This is a stark increase in a decade. It can’t continue like this. Find out more: unhcr.org/globaltrends #GlobalTrends As in recent years, most people #ForcedToFlee remained within the borders of their own countries. Find out more: unhcr.org/globaltrends #GlobalTrends #Humanitarian at work
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Professor, Medill - Northwestern University | Integrated Marketing Communications, Circular Economy - Sustainability, Change Management, Place Branding. Journal Associate Editor: Sustainable Marketing, Global Marketing
‘S’ in ESG is critical to strengthen Social Contract and Children’s Human Rights!
Distinguished professor, policy advisor, process shaper, institution-builder // Just and inclusive transitions to peace and environmental sustainability
13,000 children have died in #Gaza, and we now watch daily reports of children starving from our human-made cause – war. These excruciating images raise profound questions about our human nature, and the agreements and principles that we hold consciously or unconsciously, that we live by. Our universally ratified legal frameworks and #IHL are clear on the need to protect children, especially in war (see, the Geneva Conventions & UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – the most widely ratified human rights treaty). Protecting children is something we agree upon, globally. Yet in Gaza and farther afield, the de facto laws of war and politics prevail. While international law cements normative agreements into legal ones, ensuring adherence requires other political, social and economic spheres of influence, policy and practice. Here is where social contracts become important. #SocialContracts are broader and deeper than legal agreements, embedded in political settlements, institutions and social relations and norms. They fundamentally relate to how we live together in governed spaces and handle competing interests and moral obligations. Last year I wrote a UNICEF report, Social Contracts: Towards more Child- and Future- Centered Framings, under the leadership of @TamaraRusinow and @GaryRisser. Key points made by the report with relevance for Gaza and other crisis contexts include: - Social contracts around the world are fraying, reflecting disconnects between institutions and the people they are meant to serve, especially #children and #youth who feel their interests are not being effectively considered. They bear the brunt of crises today, experiencing deepening vulnerability and lack of political voice in decisions that affect them – even as their responsibilities grow. - Wars (needless to say genocides) starkly reveal the failure of legal agreements and wider social contracts to protect the most vulnerable, and of states and societies to restrain the use of force and violence. Children suffer most as protection structures collapse. - More prominently featuring children and #FutureGenerations in in social contracts involves: o increasing their participation in decision-making; o delivering concretely on their key needs like health and education; o rebuilding trust through intergenerational solidarity; o mainstreaming a child rights approach in agreements, policies and practices. - Such efforts will build more responsive governance and ensure that moral obligations and competing interests (at the heart of social contracts) will not only better protect vulnerable populations, but serve to protect all of humanity, our planet and future. #ClimateAction UNICEF Innocenti College of Public Policy, HBKU (CPP) Global Institute for Strategic Research (GISR) See UNICEF's website for excellent analysis on Gaza, children, and wider social contract analysis. More on my social contract work can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dk9_9ZEX
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𝐇𝐑𝐂 𝟓𝟓: 𝐈𝐃 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 The Special Representative of the Secretary-General presented her report on the violence against children at the Human Rights Council on 13th March 2024. Millions of children have been identified as suffering from violence, child labour and trafficking all over the world, triggering irreversible trauma. Ms. Najat Maalla M'jid, the former Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, raised alarms over the situation children separated from their family, and lacking access to resources, find themselves in. Children’s vulnerability to poverty and exploitation is of high concern. Her report combined data on children on the internet, children in relation to environmental risks, and children on the move. She urgently called for the State's commitment in strengthening investments and advocating for the protection of children’s rights as a duty of international human rights law. The European Union’s statement emphasised the need to connect countries together. Regarding children on the move, Belgium recommended the facilitation of access for children seeking asylum, the condemnation of discrimination, as well as difference of treatment. The urgent need to uphold the 2030 Sustainable goals and the obligations of the Convention of the child in times of armed conflict and international instability is incontestable. The dire situation and pervasive insecurity experienced by the children of Gaza necessitated urgent action and increased awareness of the realities on the ground. The United States emphasised the important role of NGOs and the necessity for intervention and regulatory policies that promote the freedom and interest of the child on a global basis. 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐚 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 (𝐆𝐈𝐂𝐉) condemns the torture and trauma perpetrated on children and urges the States and international community to gather all ressources available to promote children’s rights, especially those exposed to armed conflicts, poverty, or separated from their families. #Geneva4Justice #GenevaInternationalCentreforJustice #ChildrensRights #ViolenceAgainstChildren #ChildTrafficking #ChildProtection #HumanRightsLaw #NGOs #ConventionOnTheRightsOfTheChild #GazaChildren
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Searching for sustainable solutions for displaced people through advocacy, legal work and community mobilization
It has been long since I have posted here. However, this is only due to the amount of different initiatives and undertakings completed over last several mont with #unhcr and #partners. I believe in value of partnerships - especially operational ones - built on common values. *n Ukraine I have been privileged to work with different organizations and institutions. One of them that entered my life back in 2016 is the Coalition of national NGOs defending rights of war-affected people. Their work bears very concrete fruit of legislative changes, strategies approved and governmental programs implemented. They fought for the right to vote for #IDPs, worked on eradicating discrimination in acces to social and economic rights of displaced, and for protection of people living in occupied territories. Yesterday in UNHCR we facilitated an expert discussion around the situation with #documents issued at occupied territories. Recognized as such that do not have legal force, quite often they remain the only papers people have. Birth and death certificates, passports, titles to property and more: how to reconcile a rightful message of state sovereignty with the necessary measures to ensure access to basic rights? How the principle of "leave no one behind" could receive a practical meaning vis-a-vis residents of the occupied territories? What is the role of #international_law in this? The Coalition has put together a draft document and presented main ideas around difficulties concerning identity documents, medical records, and property acts to receive feedback and comments from some twenty experts from humanitarian organizations and think tanks. They will obtain more from state institutions. These are the seeds of future analytical work that will allow elaborating practical legislative acts to resolve issues of importance for millions. I am happy that #unhcr supports forward looking approach aiming to protection of displaced and war affected, as well as keeps an eye on possible risks of #statelessness. *The Coalition is composed of eight organizations - Human Rights Center Zmina, Right to Protection, Donbas SOS, Crimea SOS, , East SOS, Crimean Human Rights Group, Civic Holding Group of Influence, and SSS. Publication 9f the document is pending finalization.
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