The Global Campaign for Education is a movement to end the worldwide crisis in education. Around the world today, 80 million children - most of them girls - are out of school. GCE's mission is to make sure that governments act now to deliver...
Formed on October 24th, 1989, United Nations Day, Save the Children Iceland is an independent organisation composed of several thousand members. Save the Children Iceland helps children in need, both in Iceland and abroad, and is a member of the...
Global March Against Child Labour is an international movement dedicated to giving every child a chance to live and grow without the burden of exploitative work. Global March is a movement to mobilise worldwide efforts to protect and promote the...
A mid-Atlantic island country, Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. For much of the late twentieth century, Iceland’s status as prosperous, stable, democratic and largely politically neutral made it well positioned to become...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of all UN Treaty Bodies and their follow-up procedures. This does not include the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which are...
Summary: This report summarises the status of children's rights in Iceland vis-a-vis European human rights mechanisms.Search CRIN's ratifications table to find regional instruments to which Iceland is a party.
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The Reykjavík Congress on Human Rights
“Human Rights Protection & International Law: The Multifaceted Dilemma of Restraining and Promoting International Interventions”
Co-hosted by the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy &...
Summary: Country to examine ways to prevent citizens accessing violent or degrading content but critics are uneasy about censorship
[25 Feburary 2013] -
In the age of the internet and globe-spanning viral videos, can a thoroughly wired...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child...
Summary: Authorities in Iceland, where there are strict rules on allowed names, had objected to the name Blaer given to a girl by her mother, saying it was not a proper feminine name.[31 January 2013] - A 15-year-old Icelandic girl has won the...
