Advancing Child Rights Strategic Litigation: Launch Event

Child rights strategic litigation (CRSL) – defined as litigation that seeks to bring about legal and social change in terms of children’s enjoyment of their rights – is a pressing topic in advocacy and academic circles. Given its increased deployment as a tool for advancing children’s rights by a range of different actors, it is vital to engage effectively with the challenges and opportunities presented by CRSL. This project, ACRiSL, does just that. Focused on the development, implementation, impact assessment and critique of CRSL from a child rights perspective, ACRiSL will contribute directly to strengthening the capacity of such litigation to deliver on children’s rights globally.

This launch event will feature short interventions by project partners, focusing some of the key issues relating to the state-of-play of child rights strategic litigation globally.

• Introduction to ACRiS, Professor Aoife Nolan, Professor of International Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham
• Key challenges in CRSL practice, Karabo Ozah, Director of the Centre for Child Law, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
• CRSL and the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, Manu Krishan, Global Study Programme Manager, Global Campus of Human Rights
• CRSL and migrant children’s rights, Claire Tixeire, Senior Legal Advisor, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)
• A global overview of CRSL, Leo Ratledge, Legal and Policy Director, Child Rights International Network
• CRSL and international communications systems, Professor Ann Skelton, UNESCO Chair: Education Law in Africa, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria and Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

The event is free to attend and open to all, but please register here.