Updated Report on the Decisions of the Committee on Admissibility: Summary and Comments

The report on admissibility under CRC OP3 has been updated until April 2022. In addition, to the previous report, it includes the admissibility decisions of the CRC Committee made at its 85th – 89th sessions. Specific attention is given to admissibility and extra-territorial jurisdiction.

Jaap Doek • May 25, 2022

Third follow-up progress report on individual communications

On 14 October 2021, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child published a new follow-up progress report on individual communications.

Lisanne van Dijck and Eunice Odongo • April 12, 2022

Rules of Procedure under CRC OP3 revised after the climate change case

After the recent climate change case at its eighty-eighth session (6 to 24 September 2021), the Committee on the Rights of the Child has revised the Rules of Procedure under CRC OP3, more specifically: rule 19 concerning the oral hearing.

Apollonia Bolscher • January 31, 2022

Open Letter on Climate Change

For the first time, the Committee on the Rights of the Child has published a separate clarification specifically for children, in addition to its formal decision under OP3 in the recent climate change case

Ton Liefaard • October 20, 2021

Sacchi et al. v. Argentina et al.: A revolutionary climate case before the UN Child Rights Committee declared inadmissible

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child declares its first climate-related petition inadmissible for non-exhaustion of domestic remedies but establishes States extra-territorial obligations concerning climate change.

Laura Shorten • October 19, 2021

Grouping individual communications together: a new strategy to address the backlog of work facing the CRC Committee?

Under its Optional Protocol to the CRC on a Communications Procedure (CRC OP3), the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has recently begun to consider multiple cases together within individual decisions. Does this signal a new strategy to address the backlog of work facing the Committee?

Jessica Valentine • September 07, 2021

Model complaint form and guidance note

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has published a new individual complaints form and guidance note. What are the requirements for preparing and filing an individual communication to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child?

Lisanne van Dijck • September 03, 2021

Accompanied children in the Finnish asylum process: inadequate best interests assessments

Legislative age limits and migration policies concerning children’s right to be heard hinder best interests assessments of accompanied children. The Views of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in A.B. v. Finland demonstrate the need for reform.

Jenni Saukkola • May 17, 2021

Landmark Decision Committee on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction

The Committee on the Rights of the Child declares a complaint lodged against France on the protection of children in Northern Syria admissible, building on third party interventions.

Ton Liefaard • November 11, 2020