Ann Skelton
@askelton_CCL
Chairperson: Committee on the Rights of the Child
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29-05-2012 10:54:32
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📷 #FridayReflections
🎉We are still full of excitement from our celebration Strategic Plan 2024 - 2032 launch event Scottish Parliament on Tuesday
Great to connect face-to-face & so many familiar faces attend #RightsOnTrack
Click here to view Strategic Plan: bit.ly/4a7u6cB
UNChildRights Philip D. Jaffé Thank you former members, for your deep concern about the cancellation by the UN of the week following the formal session, in which the Committee had scheduled meetings with children and with civil society.
Read how former members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child express publicly strong preoccupation about the partial cancelation of the #UNCRC 's May session. 'Every State, every Society, every Leader must view children as the priority'.
acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc… Philip D. Jaffé…
The SA Constitution has the most comprehensive #childrensrights clause of any Constitution in the world. As we celebrate it, we must not forget that the work of realizing rights – is far from being achieved - Ann Skelton, Chair, UNChildRights at the #HumanRightsConferenceSA
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child #UNCRC delivers its strongest statement. Gaza: Halt the war now to save children from dying of imminent famine. #childrensrights Philip D. Jaffé
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child #UNCRC urges #Gambia 🇬🇲 to halt a regressive legislative step that places girls at heightened risk of extreme and irreperable physical harm. #EndFGM #childrensrights nytimes.com/2024/03/18/wor… Philip D. Jaffé
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We were delighted to have received a quote from UNChildRights Chair Ann Skelton to open our book and shine a light on the international commitment to the #UNCRC
Last Thursday, our Director Pernille Fenger participated in the Annual Discussion on the Rights of the Child during the #HRC55 . 'Children, adolescents, and young people belong at all levels of decision-making.' #ICPD30 Dr. Natalia Kanem /she/her/ella/ UNICEF
Join us tomorrow evening for our event on #Gaza , organized w/Global Governance Centre & IHEID Law, & hear from #UN experts on what's at stake when framing the ongoing violence against #Palestinians as a #warcrime , #crimeagainsthumanity , or #genocide .
geneva-academy.ch/event/all-even…
On 6 March, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing, Pedro Arrojo Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur, @MichaelFakhriand Ann Skelton will speak on Gaza and the possibilities and limits of international law.
To register👉🏾bit.ly/49JU5GM.
We welcome Kazakhstan🇰🇿 Mission in Geneva ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure & call on States to keep the momentum & ratify the CRC Optional Protocol on Individual Communications!
➡️ ow.ly/gVVT50Qz637
Le Comité UNChildRights demande instamment au Sénégal d’interdire explicitement dans la loi les #châtimentscorporels dans tous les contextes, y compris à la maison, dans les daaras, les structures d’accueil de la petite enfance, les garderies ....
news.un.org/fr/story/2024/…
22/1/24 The #UNCRC UN Committee on the Rights of the Child will conduct a two-day long constructive dialogue with the Russian Federation #Russia on the progress achieved with regard to #childrensrights . 📺 Watch live on webtv.un.org/en/schedule/20… Russian Mission in Geneva Philip D. Jaffé
Anna K. Doris, Fran and Anghelina, from our Children's Advisory Team, were invited to the podium for their work on the latest report “Children’s vision for Human Rights”(ohchr.org/sites/default/…).
#StandUp4HumanRights #childrights #HumanRights75
