On 27 September 2022, ACRiSL held its fourth network event and launch of its research report on ‘Advancing Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice.’
By clarifying what child rights-consistent CRSL practice looks like and identifying examples of good practice and areas for development, the report aims to support litigators and others involved in CRSL in putting children’s rights at the heart of their practice. The report draws on in-depth interviews with CRSL practitioners and people with lived experience of CRSL as children across a wide range of global regions. It is also informed by the work of the project’s Child and Youth Advisory Group.
The event consisted of a panel where speakers presented key findings and recommendations from the report, focusing on four key areas:
the scoping, planning and design of CRSL;
the operationalisation of CRSL;
follow-up to CRSL, including implementation
extra-legal advocacy (political advocacy and other campaigning, media and communications work).
Speakers included:
Aoife Nolan - Professor of International Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham / Vice-president, European Committee of Social Rights
Ann Skelton - Professor of Law, UNESCO Chair in Education Law at the University of Pretoria/Member / UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Karabo Ozah - Senior attorney and Director of the Centre for Child Law at the University of Pretoria
Manfred Nowak, Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights and Professor of Human Rights at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, who provided an overview of the Global Campus of Human Rights-Right Livelihood cooperation, under whose auspices the ACRiSL project falls.
The presentations were followed by a Q&A/discussion with event participants.
Follow this link to watch the video recording of the event.