We believe children deserve to have their rights fully recognised and respected, just as all humans do.
We want to ask hard questions about how we live, what needs to change and how we can contribute to a planet where all the intersections of our identities can thrive.
For World Consumer Rights Day on 15 March, CRIN joined over 200 organisations and academics calling on the European Commission to develop a strong Digital Fairness Act - one that delivers meaningful rights protection for all, including children.
CRIN is horrified by the escalation of violence between the US, Israel and Iran, which has put the lives of millions of children in Southwest Asia at risk, along with their families and communities. The recklessness of what has happened is hard to put into words. What is evident is that children are, once again, paying the price for clear violations of international law.
Along with child rights organisations and networks across the globe, CRIN condemns what the continued revelations surrounding the Epstein case have laid bare: a horrific pattern of systemic failure to protect children and young people.
Across the world, many are calling for change in how we ‘do’ democracy. There’s a need for ordinary citizens to be included in decision-making. In this article, we share key developments for children’s rights and deliberative democracy over the last year. We also include an invitation to join CRIN’s ‘Children and Democracy Network’, a global community of practice dedicated to shaping how we collectively advance children’s involvement in democratic processes.
Defence for Children International, Eurochild and the Child Rights International Network condemn the attacks by some European states against the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese.
Hosted at the mouth of the Amazon, COP30 was framed as a turning point for real climate action but the reality fell far short of that promise. While some gains were made, COP30 was ultimately marked by exclusion, missed opportunities and a troubling step back from commitments to phase out fossil fuels. CRIN unpacks what COP30 delivered and what it failed to achieve from a children’s rights perspective.
Sudan’s civil war has put millions of children in danger. Alongside mass displacement and war crimes - amounting to genocide in some regions - the conflict is also degrading the environment, with military operations worsening living conditions and the impacts of climate change. CRIN’s latest briefing examines how these crises intersect to harm children and why international action is needed.
CRIN and 17 child rights and youth organisations are raising concerns about the EU’s ‘Food and Feed Safety Omnibus’. This proposed package of measures shatters key protection standards governing the approval of dangerous pesticides in the European Union. Adopting it would expose children to serious and preventable health risks, violating the rights (and futures) of our youngest citizens.
Despite welcome steps toward recognising children’s rights at COP30, governments fell short on the action needed to protect children from the climate crisis. CRIN has joined the Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative coalition to warn that without the phase-out of fossil fuels - as well a commitment to prioritise children in all climate decision-making - any progress made is purely symbolic. We cannot accept business as usual if we want to secure a liveable future.
Our new report uncovers the links between hazardous chemicals and children’s rights violations in the European Union (EU) and beyond.
In this series, we apply a children’s rights approach to the most significant debates affecting children in the digital environment.
CRIN’s latest report shows how all stages of the UK's counter-terrorism system threaten children’s rights in chilling ways. From pre-criminal, to pre-trial, to trial and sentencing, we need reforms and approaches that genuinely protect children.
CRIN’s new chronological report highlights every known account of abuse at the Army Foundation College between 2014 and 2024 - drawing on official data, national media reports, court judgments and the testimonies of former recruits and their parents.
The CRIN team was in Nairobi in December 2025 attending the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, together with three of CRIN’s Climate Advisers - Shirley Akinyi Ochieng from Kenya and Zara and Ashton Hawkins from the UK. This interview is a collection of their respective experiences, insights and expertise on UNEA-7 and the ways it can improve for children.