📢 @icjurists.bsky.social has published a Compendium of strategies and good practices to support professionals, policymakers and civil society in ensuring the child’s right to be heard and to participate in legal proceedings, fostering child-sensitive legal systems
🔍 www.icj.org/eu-strategie...
📢 Missed our webinar on inclusive participation of children with disabilities in legal proceedings?
🎥 Watch the session on access to justice and procedural accommodations for persons with disabilities in criminal proceedings with @kbabicka.bsky.social
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVUm...
📢The @icjurists.bsky.social has published a new Guide on Strategic Litigation to engage lawyers and CSOs in strategic human rights litigation challenging immigration detention of children
🔍 www.icj.org/eu-icj-publi...
#EndChildDetention
Register to the @icjurists.bsky.social event on protecting children in migration in the EU. The newly published guide will be presented, alongside effective strategies to protect migrant children from detention
📅12 February
🕚11:00-12:15
✍Register forms.office.com/e/GkTQxLgA4v
🎥Zuzana Pavelková, lawyer at the Organization for Aid for Refugees, reflects on legal assistance for migrant children in the Czech Republic, where children with family with can be detained in closed centers for up to 90 days
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#EndChildDetention
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Don’t forget to register for the @icjurists.bsky.social webinar on inclusive participation of children with disabilities in legal proceedings
📅 Wednesday 14 January
🕚 11:00-12:30 CET
✍ Register here: forms.office.com/e/6FgdDQtGkL
🗣️ Ruth Farrugia & @kbabicka.bsky.social
Day 1 of @icjurists.bsky.social workshop focuses on the need for procedural accommodations for children with disabilities in legal proceedings. Support from intermediaries, interpreters & other professionals ensures that children are heard and can effectively participate
#ChildVOICE
Glad to be able to present the @icjurists.bsky.social Disability Rights Benchbook at the workshop with #justiceactors and national experts today!
www.icj.org/resource/mod...
The @icjurists.bsky.social & @theecre.bsky.social submitted comments to the European Committee of Social Rights on the follow-up to ICJ and ECRE v. Greece case
🚨Greece must end detention of migrant and refugee children and adopt measures to comply with children’s rights
👉 www.icj.org/greece-icj-a...
On Day 2, Karolína Babická @icjurists.bsky.social, Nuala Mole @airecentre.bsky.social and Santiago A. Canton @icjurists.bsky.social explored mechanisms to litigate immigration detention of children - the European Committee of Social Rights, the CJEU, UN Treaty Bodies & special procedures
Experts from @echr.coe.int, @icjurists.bsky.social, @gcrefugees.bsky.social, @hfhrpl.bsky.social, @airecentre.bsky.social & Czech Government Office share procedural & strategic know-how on litigating children’s rights in (alternatives to) immigration detention cases
💡Valuable takeaways for lawyers
At today’s workshop, Santiago A. Canton, @icjurists.bsky.social General & former Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, explores the Commission’s jurisprudence on migration and asylum. A comparative approach supporting lawyers fighting child detention🌎🌍
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📣 Join our webinar on procedural rights of #migrant & #refugee #children in #legal proceedings, where we'll explore intl & #EU frameworks ensuring children’s effective participation.
✍️Get registered: forms.office.com/e/PkHbpeEhag
#ChildsRights #VoiceOfTheChild #RightToBeHeard
Day 2 starts in Brussels with Frankie McClean from @theecre.bsky.social sharing insights on children’s access to legal assistance & guardianship when subject to immigration detention.
#ChildVOICE
#EndChildDetention
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🔊Live @icjurists.bsky.social webinar with Hind Riad, lawyer from Progress Lawyers in the E.B. et al. v. Belgium case before the UN CRC Committee, who provides practical tips for litigation: how to lodge an individual complaint against the detention of a migrant child?
#EndChildDetention
🔊Live webinar with Mikiko Otani, @icjurists.bsky.social
Commissioner & former Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, who is sharing insights on the Committee’s approach to rights of children in migration context with a wide range of professionals!
#EndChildDetention
Yesterday marked the first day of our workshop on Litigation before the UN Treaty Bodies and the European Committee of Social Rights, bringing together inspiring voices and meaningful discussions. Here’s a glimpse of the energy and engagement in the room! 📸💭
#UNCRC #ChildRights @icj-eca.bsky.social
„The UN CRC and its General Comments should be more known among lawyers and judges and other practitioners.“
Thank you to lawyers sharing their past litigation to the UN #CRC against the Czech Republic, Belgium and Spain, and for discussing litigation strategies to UN Treaty bodies.
We are discussing today with #EU lawyers the use of the lesser known international mechanisms – the UN #CRC and the @coe.int European Committee on Social Rights – to protect #children from #detention
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✨🔊 Highlight from our #webinar on litigation to the #CJEU, where we discussed litigation strategies to end detention of #MigrantChildren.
🎥 The full recording's live on our #YouTube channel at youtu.be/E6VIjAa8yvw. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the tools for protecting migrant children!
Missed the @icjurists.bsky.social webinar on litigation before the CJEU? Watch the full recording now! The webinar looks at litigation strategies to protect migrant children from detention including preliminary rulings and infringement procedures
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6VI...
👩⚖️👨⚖️Another @icjurists.bsky.social workshop brought EU judges together to discuss justice for children - calling for stronger safeguards, regular sentence reviews, proper individual assessments & mandatory training.
Read more: www.icj.org/eu-judges-di...
#JuvenileJustice #ACCESSproject
Live @icjurists.bsky.social webinar: Gruša Matevžič from @hungarianhelsinki.bsky.social explores how infringement proceedings can support strategic litigation by sharing examples from Hungary on pushbacks, access to asylum and attacks on civil society, plus practical guidance for action
"The regulations will help ensure physical accessibility of the courts, ensure that the procedures prescribed, also put in place the aspirations, the requirements and accommodation of people with different types of disabilities," - Wilson Macharia, Legal Adviser at @icjurists.bsky.social
In a joint statement, @icjurists.bsky.social, @fidh-official.bsky.social, and @amnesty.org call for a transparent process by the @coe.int's Committee of Ministers in developing the draft Statute for the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against #Ukraine.
On this second day, lawyers, judges, social workers and experts discuss national challenges, available child-friendly procedures and best practices in Austria, the Czech Republic, Malta, the Netherlands and Slovakia
📣 Friendly reminder: Public participation is still open for the upcoming webinar on litigation to the CJEU, hosted by @icj-eca.bsky.social
🖋️ Registration will be closed after 14 May. Don't miss out! — register now to receive the link! 👉 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
#ChildrensRights #ChildsRights
How can we ensure the voices of children are genuinely heard? @icjurists.bsky.social Commissioner and former judge Martine Comte raises: “Children can express themselves in many ways, and it's crucial to talk to them and to explain things to them, even when they are very young”
Martine Comte, @icjurists.bsky.social Commissioner, on the need to be changing our way of thinking, challenging our own bias and understandings, when working with #children.
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