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Date: 10th December 2019
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The next examination of the UK’s progress in implementing the UNCRC will take place under the ‘Simplified Reporting Procedure”. This will result in a new set of recommendations (known as Concluding Observations) from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2022. The workshop, held in Belfast on 2nd December, aimed to raise awareness and understanding of the new procedure, and support the coordination of civil society submissions. Participants included NGOs, children’s commissioners and devolved governments representatives from across the UK and Jersey.
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Date: 10th December 2019
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Family Environment and Alternative Care
The briefing - Resolving Parenting Disputes: Scotland Compared to Other Countries - looks at how other legal systems deal with parenting disputes, both in terms of what the law says and how it is applied in practice. The report, written by Dr Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane of Edinburgh Napier University, reviews the current law and the proposed reforms from a human rights perspective.
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Date: 10th December 2019
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The project aims to chart the history of childhood policy in the UK, and its four constituent nations. The publications draw on the expertise of the researchers and Fellows of the British Academy, with a view to opening a conversation on this area of public policy.
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Date: 10th December 2019
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General measures of implementation
Speaking at a conference at the United Nations in Geneva in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the UNCRC, members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child called on countries to strengthen their commitment to promote and protect children’s rights.
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Date: 10th December 2019
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Child poverty
The report - Protecting the Child from Poverty: The Role of Rights in the Council of Europe - centres on the role of child rights in addressing child poverty in the Council of Europe (COE).
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Date: 10th December 2019
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Child trafficking, Children in situations of exploitation
Closing date: 31st December 2019
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Date: 10th December 2019
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Civil Rights and Freedoms
Closing date: 23rd January 2020
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Date: 10th December 2019
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Civil Rights and Freedoms, Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
The UN Human Rights Committee seeks children’s views in the development of a new General Comment on the right to peaceful assembly.
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Date: 10th December 2019
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UNCRC Optional Protocols and General Comments, Optional protocol on a communications procedure
Child Rights Connect, together with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children have sent letters to the countries who have still not ratified all Optional Protocols to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), including the UK.
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Date: 10th December 2019
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Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
The results of the 2018 PISA data collection, released earlier this month, revealed UK’s improved ranking in maths, science, and reading, while the UK was among the lowest ranked in pupils’ life satisfaction.
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Date: 10th December 2019
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Equal protection from violence
The duty on Scottish Ministers came into force on 8th November 2019.
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Date: 10th December 2019
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Age of criminal responsibility
New regulations have brought Sections 3 (no referral of child under 12 to children’s hearing on offence ground) and 27 (provision of information to persons affected by child’s behaviour) of the Act into force.
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Date: 10th December 2019
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The letter has been sent to all party leaders in the UK, on the occasion of Human Rights Day - 10th December, calling on them to commit to safeguarding universal human rights. It has been prepared by the British Institute of Human Rights and signed by over 100 civil society groups.
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Date: 9th December 2019
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A partnership of 17 children’s organisations led by Children in Scotland has launched an alternative Manifesto detailing actions that should be taken by the new UK Government to transform children’s lives.
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Date: 9th December 2019
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General measures of implementation, Incorporation
The Deputy First Minister has announced that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) will be incorporated in Scots law “in full and directly –using the language of the Convention –in every case possible”, while the “only limitation will be the limit of the powers of the [Scottish] Parliament”.
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Date: 9th December 2019
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Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Equal protection from violence
The Equalities and Human Rights Committee has voted to endorse the general principles of the Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) Bill at Stage One, and made a number of recommendations.
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Date: 9th December 2019
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The report, prepared by Maya Cohen, focuses on the significant challenges facing family members of people in prison surrounding travel, transport, and the experience of visiting.
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Date: 9th December 2019
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Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
The event, held on Tuesday 12th November 2019 in Glasgow, took a broad look across the dimensions of health and wellbeing curriculum to explore the progress made and how far there is to go to meet the needs of all children and young people.
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Date: 20th November 2019
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Celebrations are taking place all over the world to mark the occasion! Together’s members and supporters are hosting a number of events and campaigns across Scotland.
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Date: 19th November 2019
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Respect for the views of the child
The Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) is gathering young people’s views on what its new manifesto should look like.
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