Advancing Child Rights Strategic Litigation
Child Rights Strategic Litigation:
[a definition]
Litigation that seeks to bring about positive legal and/or social change in terms of children’s enjoyment of their rights
About Our Project
Advancing Child Rights Strategic Litigation (ACRiSL) is a three-year global research collaboration bringing together partners from advocacy and academia to work on child rights strategic litigation.
This project is exploring the ways that strategic litigation has been used to advance children's rights. It will develop a model of strategic litigation that itself respects children's rights, as well as bringing cases and supporting other strategic litigators in their work.
Our objectives
We want to better understand what makes effective CRSL, but also build relationships between children's rights advocates and academia to enable collaboration on stronger CRSL globally.
Reflecting a vision that goes far beyond the production of traditional academic materials for a narrow scholarly audience, the project encompasses activities and outputs focused on:
Education
Advocacy
Research
Training
Network-building
Our Goals
The project’s overarching goal is to increase children’s enjoyment of their rights through, within and beyond child rights strategic litigation efforts. It will do so by:
Contributing original research towards the improvement of CRSL in practice
Bringing and supporting a series of CRSL cases before national, regional and international decision making bodies