October 2019
CRC Asia joins the Global Initiative on Advancing Children’s Right to a Healthy Environment as a Regional Partner!
The Global Initiative on Advancing Children’s Right to a Healthy Environment was launched in early 2019. The Initiative aims to build on the positive progress made in connecting the fields of child rights and environmental issues to date, recognizing that the Convention on the Rights of the Child is consistently overlooked in setting and implementing environment-related policies and standards. This is achieved through a series of regional consultations that seek to empower children and youth in relation to their rights and to provide a unique forum for knowledge exchange and learning among a diverse set of key stakeholders on region-specific challenges, priorities, and promising “best practice” initiatives. Crucially, consultations seek to explore avenues for promoting tangible action at national, regional and international levels to promote recognition and implementation of children’s right to a healthy environment.
The Global Initiative, conducted under the auspices of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, seeks to ensure that children’s rights are placed at the center of environmental decision-making and action. Its overarching goal is to secure international recognition of children’s fundamental right to a safe and healthy environment.
Expert Consultation on Advancing Children’s Rights to a Healthy Environment for East Asia and the Pacific Region. 22-23 October 2019, Bogor, Indonesia. Photo: www.childrenvironment.org
In line with this, CRC Asia took part in the Expert Consultation on Advancing Children’s Rights to a Healthy Environment for East Asia and the Pacific Region on 22-23 October 2019 in Bogor, Indonesia. The reports (outcome documents, documentation, and presentations) for both the consultations done in Latin America and the Carribean and East Asia and the pacific can be downloaded here. The documentation on the consultation in Bogor can be viewed here.
Find out on the Global Initiative website more about the global initiative and the online survey for children and young people —#MyPlanetMyRights. We enjoin children to have your say by taking a short poll! The website also contains reports, videos, and photos on the site. Reports, news, and resources will also be uploaded on the site which will be a ‘one-stop-shop’ on child rights and the environment.
