Reference documents

This workbook is specially made for CSOs and NHRIs, engaged in advocacy for children’s rights, particularly those involved, and intend to support children and Child Human Rights Defenders’ (CHRDs) meaningful and safe participation online. This module is also useful for...

The right to be heard is one of the guiding principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC). Child participation asserts that children are active citizens. They have the right to freely express their...

TOGETHER, WE DECLARE OUR COMMITMENT TO promote social work and strengthen its catalytic role in realising a people-centred, people-oriented, and inclusive ASEAN Community, that enhances the capacities of the poor, vulnerable groups, achieves inclusion and enhances equitable access of those...

The model GREATER Adult Support for Child Participation was developed to address this key obstacle and achieve more substantive adult support for meaningful child participation in addressing child sexual exploitation and abuse. Models are meant to capture ways of working...

Sexual exploitation of children is increasing globally. We have to renew our approach to effectively address this crime. But, how can we be effective if we don’t engage with the first ones concerned by this, the children? Girls and boys...


The expansion of children's rights at the global level is unprecedented. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is an instrument for the protection of human rights with an almost universal level of acceptance within the United Nations, except...

Between July and October 2024, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children consulted with approximately 1700 children from over 110 countries, to identify what children expect their governments to do in the next six years to end...