Date: 16th December 2021
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Young people are encouraged to share their key issues in relation to health and wellbeing and to support discussions with young people, a conversational guide has been created.

Date: 16th December 2021
Category: Child justice system

A new initiative has been launched to support the design of rights-based services for and with children and young people on the cusp of or in conflict with the law. To do this, CYCJ will work with local authorities and organisations across Scotland to design and develop services based on the best available evidence about how to respect and uphold children’s rights and deliver on The Promise.

Date: 16th December 2021
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

To ensure everyone in Scotland lives in a healthy environment, we must be able to hold public bodies and polluters to account. To do this, a petition has been launched which includes recommendations to Scottish Government to make sure the right to a healthy environment is enforced by law.

Date: 16th December 2021
Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms

The proposed changes to the Human Rights Act set out by the UK Government run counter to the recommendations made by the Independent Panel on the Human Rights Act Review. These changes would create barriers to accessing justice and redress, courts would no longer be able to ‘read in’ interpretations to legislation.

Date: 16th December 2021
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

Just Right Scotland and the Scottish Refugee Council have obtained a legal opinion from Christine O’Neil QC on the devolved implications of the UK Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill, which recently passed through the House of Commons.

Date: 16th December 2021
Category:

UK Parliament has voted on a new bill proposed to raise the legal age for marriage and civil partnership in England and Wales.

Date: 16th December 2021
Category: Incorporation

Jersey’s Council of Ministers has now approved the Draft Children’s (Convention Rights) Law 202- which means that the draft Law can be lodged and debated in the States Assembly.

Date: 16th December 2021
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Child Rights International Network (CRIN) has published its perspective on the recent decisions made by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in its first climate change case.

Date: 16th December 2021
Category: Armed conflict

The number of children living in conflicted regions has increased from 162 to 193 million children in just one year, which is the highest number in more than a decade and 20% rise from the previous year. Following these findings, this report examines the trends and issues these children face, and calls States to protect these children.

Date: 16th December 2021
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Closing date: 3rd – 17th January 2022 (depending on group)

Date: 16th December 2021
Category:

Closing date: 16th February 2022

Date: 12th November 2021
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

Together with Scottish Refugee Council, JustRight Scotland, PKAVS, Citizens Rights Project, BEMIS, Amnesty, & Forth Valley Migrant Support Network, HRCS has published a report with some recommendations around how the new Scotland Human Rights Bill can better protect migrants’ human rights.

Date: 12th November 2021
Category: Child poverty

The Poverty Alliance has published a new rapid evidence review which examines evidence on the effectiveness of mentoring and tutoring for children and young people living in poverty and provides an overview of the current policy and practice landscape in Scotland.

Date: 12th November 2021
Category: Armed conflict

CRIN has recently worked on a Times article which reported that rape and sexual assault claims made by girls in the military under 18 years old have risen tenfold since 2015. Freedom of information requests show that 41 complaints of rape and sexual assault have been made to military police since 2015. With 215 girls serving in the military between 2015 and 2020, this is equivalent to 1 in 40 girls.

Date: 12th November 2021
Category: Children in situations of exploitation

Barnardo’s has published a new report on the exploitation and criminalisation of children and young people, calling for The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill to be strengthened.

Date: 12th November 2021
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

Following calls by Child Rights Connect, the UN Secretary General has expressed agreement that “a holistic child rights perspective must be reinforced across the United Nations system at a global, regional and local level”. Subsequently, a guidance note on mainstreaming children’s rights will be created.

Date: 12th November 2021
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Closing Date: 10th December 2021

Date: 12th November 2021
Category: Child poverty

Closing date: 25th January 2022

Date: 12th November 2021
Category: Health and health services

Closing date: 4th February 2022

Date: 12th November 2021
Category:

From 8th to 21st November, Scotland's young people have the opportunity to vote for the MSYPs that will represent them for the next two years.Young people aged 12-25 are invited to vote for the MSYP that will represent them for the next two years! From the 8th - 21st November, young people can vote in their constituency or in their National Voluntary Organisation.Scottish Youth Parliament works to give young people a voice on all issues that impact young people, from the climate emergency and justice to local matters.Young people can visit here to vote and find out who's standing in their local area or NVO.