Workshop aims

The following overall aims guide the concept of CRIN’s legal advocacy workshops:

  • Review an agreed selection of persistent violations of children’s rights affecting different groups of children and different settings of children’s lives (such as right to health, right to education, juvenile justice, corporal punishment, child marriage, harmful traditional practices etc.) and “match” them with possible forms of legal or quasi-legal advocacy;

  • Identify what is needed to use these forms of advocacy (for example, do individual child victims have to be identified to bring a claim, are appropriately trained and experienced lawyers available and are sufficient resources available to support legal action?);

  • Identify what obstacles there are to using these and any other stronger forms of advocacy;

  • Discuss what CRIN can do to encourage and support these forms of advocacy in each country.