The social purpose of Dynamo International is development cooperation especially in the fields related to children and youth in street situation, education and social street work.
The challenge is that all around the world, every person, child and...
The duties of the Ombudsman are to promote the interests of children vis-à-vis public and private authorities and to follow up the development of conditions under which children grow up.Barneombudet
PRESS is a youth organisation for people between 13 and 25 years of age. It works for the fulfilment of the UN CRC on a local, national and international level. It makes changes through advocacy and action. Its focus areas are refugee children and...
Featuring a long Atlantic coastline and borders with Russia, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, Norway is one of the most sparsely populated countries in Europe. A constitutional monarchy with most executive power actually in the hands of the prime...
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...
The Norwegian government has drafted a new law to quash uncertaintly over a ban on corporal punishment introduced more than 20 years ago.In 1987, an ammendment to the Parent and Child Act read: "The child shall not be exposed to physical...
Only children are experts on being children, and only survivors from Utøya can say something about how their lives have been after the massacre.
This is why the Norwegian Ombudsman for Children has established an expert group of young...
Summary: The world’s first ombudsperson for children, Målfrid Grude Flekkøy, died aged 76 on 2 November, leaving behind an important institution and legacy for children’s rights. Målfrid Grude Flekkøy became Norway’s, and the...
Summary: This report summarises the status of children's rights in Norway with European human rights mechanisms.Search CRIN's ratifications table to find regional instruments to which Norway is a party.
European Court of Human Rights
Norway is a...
To educate the public, the bar (lawyers), and the judiciary (judges) about the harm caused by all forms of childhood genital cutting, including female genital cutting (also known as female genital mutilation or FGM), male genital cutting (also known...
