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Advocacy
Listed below are some key ongoing and successful advocacy initiatives challenging an aspect of discrimination against children.
If you have any case studies you would like to contribute, please email info@crin.org. We are particularly interested in hearing about examples where children have advocated on their own behalf.
Current campaigns
Campaign to establish a complaints mechanism under the UN CRC
The CRC is the only international human rights treaty with a mandatory reporting procedure which does not have a communications procedure
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Advocacy examples
Ongoing:
- A campaign by the Consortium for Street Children aims to reduce the levels of violence against street-involved children around the world. It includes a call to decriminalise so-called status offences which serve to discriminate against some children. Sign the petition here.
Successful:
- Croatia: Homophobic school text books 'discriminatory', rules rights body filed with the European Committee of Social Rights by: INTERIGHTS, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, in collaboration with the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Center for Education, Counseling and Research (CESI), in October 2007.
Read more here - Czech Republic: Govt guilty of forcing Roma children into special schools
Complaint filed with the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of 18 Roma children by the European Roma Rights Centre
Read more here - Stateless children: Yean and Bosico v. Dominican Republic
Yean and Bosico v. the Dominican Republic was the first case in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled on the prohibition of racial discrimination in access to nationality under the American Convention.
Read more here. - Belgium: Challenging age based discrimination in the exercise by children of their right to freedom of association
Read more here. - European Union: Securing legal protection from age discrimination for children
Young Equals, December 2008
Read more here.
- Advocacy tips to promote the rights of children with disabilities (Save the Children, 2009)
- Non-discrimination in Emergencies – Training manual and toolkit (Save the Children UK, 2008)
- Making the case - why children should be protected from age discrimination and how it can be done (in the UK) (Children's Rights Alliance for England - CRAE, 2009)
- Advocacy tools to challenge discrimination in education