New report on strategic litigation and children’s rights

Date: 13th October 2022
Category: General measures of implementation

This report aims to support litigators and others involved in Child Rights Strategic Litigation (CRSL) in putting children’s rights at the heart of their practice to bring about positive legal and/or social change in terms of children’s enjoyment of their rights.

By clarifying what child rights-consistent CRSL practice looks like and identifying examples of good practice and areas for development, the report aims to support litigators and others involved in CRSL in putting children’s rights at the heart of their practice. The report draws on in-depth interviews with CRSL practitioners and people with lived experience of CRSL as children across a wide range of global regions. It is also informed by the work of the project’s Child and Youth Advisory Group.

The report focuses on four key areas:

• the scoping, planning and design of CRSL;
• the operationalisation of CRSL;
• follow-up to CRSL, including implementation
• extra-legal advocacy (political advocacy and other campaigning, media and communications work).

Read the report here.