Date: 21st November 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

The State of Children's Rights report 2013 is a non-government review on the extent to which children in Scotland are able to enjoy their rights enshrined in the UNCRC.

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: 19th November 2013
Category:

Come and meet the Voluntary Action Fund's Volunteering Team at one of a series of road shows during December 2013 to find out about how the Volunteering Support Fund could help your organisation recruit additional volunteers and improve how they are supported.

Date: 18th November 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

This year's respectme campaign looks at the consequences of giving children and young people bad advice when they're being bullied, and is aimed at making adults think before giving children and young people advice about bullying behaviour.

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: 1st November 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Studies have shown that teenagers who are recruited by countries' armed forces are more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), alcohol problems and commit or attempt suicide than those who join as adults.

Date: 1st November 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

A follow-up report to the special session of the General Assembly on children has been published, which assesses steps taken in 2012 to achieve a world fit for children, highlighting the gaps in achievement as well as the strategic shifts necessary to meet unmet goals.

Date: 1st November 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

This edition of Child Poverty Insights discusses a review of evidence on the relationship between household financial resources and children's outcomes in richer countries.

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: 29th October 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

Professor Elaine Sutherland asks whether we want Scotland to be a "leader or a follower in terms of respecting children's rights" and outlines reasons to incorporate the UNCRC.

Date: 29th October 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

The UK is due to submit its next (fifth) periodic report to the UN Committee in early 2014. A draft version of the report is available & a call for views has been issued.

Date: 26th October 2013
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

As a follow-up to the 2006 UN Study on Violence against Children, the International NGO Council on Violence Against Children has launched its latest report, "Creating a non-violent juvenile justice system".

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: 23rd October 2013
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Shared Care Scotland is inviting applications for funding for the 2014-2015 Better Breaks programme.

Date: 22nd October 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

'The Right to Play' is the ninth publication in the Early Childhood in Focus series, and offers short summaries of theory, research and policy issues that can inform the implementation of Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

Date: 21st October 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

Sign the 'UP! Child Rights' petition to encourage the UK Government to make children a priority with laws and systems to promote rights for every child.