We focus on protecting, respecting, and fulfilling children’s human rights by identifying and advancing the human rights-based approaches and mechanisms that promote the value of government policy on children’s lived realities.
We work in partnerships to bridge gaps in the effective realisation of children’s human rights, and apply international learning to national contexts where children’s human rights are most at risk.
Children’s Human Rights
Our Projects and Partners…
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We are working to drive the recognition and importance of implementing family-centred policies and programmes, which meaningfully engage and strengthen families and address the drivers of separation.
See more here!
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We are working with the Observatory of Children’s Human Rights Scotland on a number of projects, including:
Theory of Change: Making Children’s Rights Real in Scotland
The Observatory, Matter of Focus and Public Health Scotland on a collaborative effort to develop a Theory of Change for the process of United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) implementation in Scotland.
Read the report here!
Independent Child Rights Impact Assessment on Response to COVID
We worked with the Observatory to conduct a thorough analysis of how emergency laws and procedures around COVID-19 impacted the human rights of children and young people in Scotland.
This was done in the form of an Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment (CRIA).
Click to read the Child Rights Impact Assessment!
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We’re working in partnership with the One Ocean Hub, an international programme of research for sustainable development, as part of their Working Group on Children’s Rights & a Healthy Ocean to promote fair and inclusive decision-making for a healthy ocean whereby people and the planet can flourish.
Read more here!
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We are working in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law at the University of Strathclyde (CSHRL) to explore the role and impact of human rights law in specific areas of legal and public policy practice, in Scotland and internationally, with a particular focus on children’s human rights.
Click here to read more about the CSHRL’s latest Royal Society of Edinburgh Funded Workshop Series: ‘Integrated Implementation of Scotland’s New Human Rights Framework’
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In March 2022, we hosted a Special Continuing Professional Development Course on Children’s Human Rights.
This course was led by Visiting Professor Ann Skelton, in partnership with Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights), the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland, the Observatory of Children’s Human Rights Scotland, and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law at the University of Strathclyde.
With thanks to the Observatory of Children’s Human Rights Scotland for their generous support from the Impact Acceleration Grant from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Grant awarded to the University of Edinburgh (grant reference ES/T50189X/1)