Date: 20th November 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

A Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme has been adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, with a number of aims including to promote the rights of the child.

Date: 14th November 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The Education and Culture Committee has published its Stage 1 report on the Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill.

Date: 11th November 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

SCCYP is commissioning a new piece of research about domestic abuse, entitled Improving and developing practice - how the views of children and young people are taken when they are affected by domestic abuse and subject to court ordered contact arrangements.

Date: 6th November 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

This consultation seeks views on a range of proposals intended to give people in communities, and those supporting them in the public sector, a range of new ways to help deliver a better Scotland.

Date: 31st October 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The Scottish Children's Reporter Administration (SCRA) published its third set of Official Statistics along with its Annual Report for 2012/13 on 31st October 2013.

Date: 26th October 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

Human Rights Day 2013 is fast approaching and this year it focuses on the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Office. A special website and interactive timeline has been launched.

Date: 25th October 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) passed a "landmark document" on women and conflict during its 56th session on 18th October 2013.

Date: 23rd October 2013
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation

Violence against children, the 'scourge' of armed conflicts and children's right to be heard were some of the children's rights issues raised at the 68th session of the General Assembly in New York.

Date: 14th October 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The final session of oral evidence on the Children and Young People Bill to the Education and Culture Committee took place on Tuesday 8th October 2013.

Date: 2nd October 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

CRAE has submitted a response to the Ministry of Justice's call for views on the issues that the UK Government should focus on in its 6th periodic report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Date: 30th September 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

Contribute to Together's State of Children's Rights report 2013 by completing a survey on the extent to which children and young people are able to enjoy their rights as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Date: 15th September 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

Portugal and Montenegro have become the seventh and eight States to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a complaints procedure.

Date: 11th September 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The UN Special Rapporteur on housing expressed serious concern about deterioration in the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing in the United Kingdom.

Date: 10th September 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

Children in Scotland has expressed concern that new government legislation falls short of achieving its aspirations but has rejected claims the provisions for a named person would lead to a 'nanny state', and infringe on basic human rights.

Date: 9th September 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

A nationwide search is underway for 500 people to volunteer for Scotland's children's panel, to help neglected, troubled and abused children and young people living in Scotland.

Date: 3rd September 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

Together has joined members of the public, organisations representing countless people across the UK, elected officials, parliamentarians, judges and others to sign an Anniversary Card for the European Convention on Human Rights, on 60 years of it coming into force.

Date: 1st September 2013
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, General measures of implementation

Eurochild is amongst more than 37 international and national organisations and networks that have endorsed the joint statement calling for a focus on strengthening family care and providing appropriate alternative care for children, in the 2014 United Nations General Assembly resolution on the rights of the child.

Date: 28th August 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The submissions received in response to the Education and Culture Committee's call for written evidence on the Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill have been published on the Scottish Parliament website.

Date: 31st July 2013
Category: Non-discrimination, General measures of implementation

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has published its concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Date: 29th July 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

Responding to the call for written evidence on the recently launched Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill, the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) said proposed duties on ministers regarding the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) failed to go far enough.