Convention on the Rights of the Child Archives

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Children as Agents of Change

05.10.2023

Stephan Gerbig

The Committee on the Rights of the Child (Committee) has recently published its new General Comment No. 26 (GC26) on Children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on...

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How the Committee on the Rights of the Child Paved the Way for Stronger Abortion Rights

05.07.2023

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni Vanessa Bliecke

On 13 June 2023, the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CtRC) published its decision in the case of Camila v Peru (pseudonymised), marking a significant milestone in the...

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Too Young to Be a Criminal?

13.04.2023

Vanessa Bliecke

Tragic incidents and shocking crimes such as the recent murder of a 12-year-old girl in Germany (suspectedly) by her 12 and 13-year-old friends draw the public’s attention to a difficult...

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How ‘Nazis’ Stole the New Year

22.12.2022

Anastasiia Vorobiova

Several concerns have been raised about memory politics in Russia turning the memory of World War II (WWII) into an instrument that set the stage for the current war in...

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A Surprisingly Double Edged Sword

14.09.2022

Jayalakshmi Sankar

In March 2022, France passed a bill titled, ‘Law Aimed at Strengthening Parental Control over Means of Access to the Internet’ (“the Law”) which will amend Article L-34-9-3 of the...