Children have rights and should be empowered to claim these rights. Children are agents of change.

Powerful interventions from several children at #HRC55 event. 'Nothing about us without us'
Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur HRDs Save the Children LAC

📣Erika, 17 yo #child #HumanRightsDefender , addresses the #HRC55 Annual Day on #ChildRights and represents thousands of children and adolescents from Latin America.🌎
She calls on the United Nations to create and facilitate spaces for #child ren voices to be heard and considered! 👏 #ADRC2024

Today over half a million took to the streets of London to stand with Palestine and demand a full #CeasefireNOW 🇵🇸

#GazaGlobalAction

This article was written 112 years ago. 112 years and we still aren't doing what we need to do to address the climate crisis.

No time to wait. Let's make 2024 the year we #ActOnClimate

#Climate #energy #Climate Emergency #renewables #GreenNewDeal .

Global electricity system is shifting fast to renewables.
Global annual renewable capacity additions increased by almost 50% in 2023, the fastest growth rate in the past two decades. 22nd year in a row that renewable capacity additions set a new record.
iea.org/reports/renewa…

More than 10,000 children have been killed by Israeli airstrikes & ground operations in #Gaza in 100 days of war⚠️

This is 100 children on average a day.

For every day without a ceasefire, more children will die & be severely injured.

#CeasefireNow 👉 bit.ly/3Sh4yUx

Wondering which wealthy industrialized nations are leaders and laggards in reducing GHG emissions?
Total GHG emissions 1990-2021
Laggards:
Australia up 24%
New Zealand up 19%
Canada up 14%
Ireland up 12%

US down only 2%
Norway down only 4%
Japan down 8%
di.unfccc.int/time_series

Here is an example of keeping the General Comment on #childrights and #environment alive, integrating it in other agreements, also in line with #childrights mainstreaming Philip D. Jaffé

Good to see the General Comment 26 on children's rights, environment and climate change being launched in Asia, a region where large number of children are particularly vulnerable to climate change.
#GC26
UNChildRights
UN Human Rights

I just presented for the last time @UNGA
Last report to HRC in March 2024
Where do the years go?
Looking forward to being replaced by one of many strong women candidates!

🌍 #children are the least responsible for the #ClimateCrisis but suffer most from its consequences. They must be part of the decision-making, it’s their right!

📣The #GC26  implementation must build on this momentum.

🚀Join NOW the global launch👉bit.ly/3rdzvNY

Join Terre des Hommmes International Federation, #CovidUnder19 and partners for a child & youth-led online virtual celebration of General Comment 26 on Children's Rights to a Health Environment, with a focus on Climate Change!

Important day at the UN Geneva. Launching the #GC26 that recognizes the #children 's rights to a clean and sustainable environment so addressing the #ClimateCrisis is protecting #childrights

Official Launch GC 26 UN Committee on the Rights of the Child #UNCRC
18 September 2023, 11:30 – 13:00 CEST (Live broadcast and archived on media.un.org/en/webtv) Program ohchr.org/sites/default/… @lexpsyn

Today 18 September 2023 we launch the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's General Comment 26 on Children's Rights and the Environment... this spur of the moment amateur video has one message: we dedicate this General Comment to the close to 17000 children who participated

📢UNChildRights has published its General Comment No.26 on children's rights and the environment with a focus on climate change!
📄Read the #GC26 and
📆Get involved in the official launch on 18 September! ➡️bit.ly/3XLMd2I
#childrights #ChildRightsEnvironment

Landmark #UN recognition that inaction on the #climatecrisis is a child rights’ violation. Today's document recognizes children’s right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. #GeneralComment26 . check it out!: cutt.ly/dwj8PW8Q

#nature is our ally in addressing #climate change. Solutions coming from nature are the most cost effective.

PRESS RELEASE: Over 11 million #children born during world’s #hottest month ever recorded on #Earth – Save the Children International (tinyurl.com/ryu4baz3)

📢Stripped, beaten and blindfolded. New report reveals ongoing #violence and #abuse of Palestinian #children detained by the Israeli military - 'a major and longstanding #humanrights concern'- Save the Children International
📕resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/injus…