The aim of CRIN’s workshops is to provide a space for legal and nonlegal children’s rights advocates, as well as advocates working on human rights more generally, to meet, discuss and devise legal advocacy strategies for advancing children’s rights. At these events, campaigners address recurring and persistent violations of children's rights in their country or region. Through supported and organised discussion, they examine the options for challenging these violations, identify the legal blockages to improving the situation and create a concrete plan of action for taking legal advocacy forward.
To date, we have held three such workshops.
- The first of these, a national workshop in Turkey during October 2011, focussed inter alia on corporal punishment and children’s economic and social rights. It has since seen great successes in the follow-up work of its participants who have received funding to continue the work on the plans developed during the workshop.
- This was followed by a regional workshop in Nepal in May 2013 with participants from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal and Bangladesh which focused inter alia on juvenile justice and trafficking of children.
- In January 2015, our latest workshop to date took place in Tanzania and participants from Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya discussed a range of regional persistent violations of children’s rights, including issues such as privatisation of education and ritual killings of children with albinism.
We are now planning to run similar workshops in other countries and regions.
Further information about past workshops is available on our website under the following link: https://www.crin.org/en/home/law/legal-advocacy/legal-advocacy-workshops.