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In this guest post for CRIN, Mariel García-Montes discusses the tension between children's rights organisations and digital rights groups, and the importance of recognising children's agency. 

A coalition of conservative and anti-LGBT hate groups are trying to use children’s rights as an excuse to redefine marriage in Romania, in a way which will inevitably run counter to children’s best interests  

The Philippines' Senate President, Vicente Sotto III, has cited our research to support his reforms to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility. We reject this proposal in the strongest terms.

After an NGO helped convince the government to enact safety standards, Nepal‘s leaders are now planning to weaken regulations on how much toxic material is allowed in children’s toys. What caused this U-turn?

The appointment of the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, due to take place later this year, is a...

The World Congress on Justice for Children will be held from 28-30 May 2018 and will focus on global trends in three important areas.

As the UN’s Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty gets underway, CRIN is stepping up its work on children who are detained.

The International Social Service (ISS), together with a group of experts, are currently in the process of discussing the...

More than 40 civil society groups are calling on the Georgian government to write in explicit protections for children's rights in the country's new Constitution.

Italy is considering abolishing its system of youth courts, but tens of thousands of people have urged them to reconsider. Learn more and sign their petition here.

Open letter from 40 NGOs, including CRIN, on the UN's listing of States and Non-state actors which commit grave violations against children in conflict.

New resources on children deprived of their liberty, including a compilation of statistics on children detained in the criminal justice system across almost 180 countries.