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...
YC is an international coalition of young people
(15-29) committed to promoting adolescent
and youth sexual and reproductive rights at
the national, regional and international levels.
YC is composed of students, researchers,
volunteers,...
The Global Fund for Children makes grants to small community-based organisations around the world that help young people develop the knowledge and skills they need to become productive, caring members of our global society. Our grants support formal...
Located off the northern coast of South America, Trinidad and Tobago covers two main islands, is mainly inhabited by people of African and Indian descent and is one of the wealthiest countries in the Caribbean due to its abundant natural resources....
Summary: Information about institutions in Trinidad and Tobago that monitor children's rights.Children's Ombudspersons
The Office of the Public Defender was established under the Public Defender Act of 1999 and is empowered to instigate complaints,...
Summary: General overview of Trinidad and Tobago's national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to conduct further research. National laws on children's rights
Status of the CRC in national law
Treaties ratified by...
Summary: Among the Education Minister's concerns were a gender bias in the education opportunities offered to male and female detainees, the practice of locking children up for status offences, and the emphasis on retribution over rehabilitation. [3...
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: Report on life imprisonment sentences for children in the Commonwealth States.In 2010 CRIN, together with other partners, launched a campaign for the prohibition of inhuman sentencing of children- defined to include sentences of death, life...
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...
