Resources
Advancing Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice
Key Principles for Child Rights-Consistent Child Rights 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.
Key principles that should be borne in mind by CRSL actors when carrying out work around the scoping, planning and design of CRSL, operationalising CRSL, working on follow-up to CRSL, including implementation, and working on extra-legal advocacy (political advocacy and other campaigning, media work and communications).
Key Principles for Climate Justice Litigation
These Key Principles for Climate Justice Litigation seek to show how child rights are being, and can be, integrated into climate justice strategic litigation practice. They are principles that should be borne in mind by litigators and others working on climate justice CRSL
when carrying out work around the scoping, planning and design of CRSL, operationalising CRSL, working on follow-up to CRSL, including implementation, and working on extra-legal advocacy (political advocacy and other campaigning, media work and communications)
Toolkits
This is a series of 4 toolkits about child rights strategic litigation and corresponding animations. They were made with our Child and Youth Advisory Group, who are children and young people based in the UK and South Africa. We thank them for their help, which will undoubtedly contribute to changing the way in which litigators work with children to bring about legal and social change. These four guides can be used by children who are involved in or interested in bringing child rights strategic litigation. They can also be used by lawyers and others seeking to support children through the strategic litigation process. We hope these toolkits can act as empowerment tools to increase children’s engagement in and understanding of strategic litigation, while providing practical tips and ideas for children and practitioners.
Toolkit 1 is focused on the scoping, planning and design of child rights strategic litigation.
Toolkit 3 is focused on follow-up to child rights strategic litigation.
Toolkit 2 is focused on operationalising child rights strategic litigation.
Toolkit 4 is focused on extra-legal advocacy in child rights strategic litigation (communication, the media and campaigning).
Submissions
Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child by the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre on behalf of the Advancing Child Rights Strategic Litigation Project
This submission focuses on the role of lawyers and others who carry out strategic litigation in order to advance children’s access to justice. In doing so, it seeks to contribute inter alia to the General Comment’s clarification of the role that lawyers and other professionals working in the strategic litigation context can play to pro-actively support children to realise their rights. The submission argues that it is vital that the General Comment 27 should make clear that where strategic litigation is used to ensure the right to access to justice and effective remedies for children, such litigation must be carried out in a way that is consistent with the rights set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
Other materials
Article: ‘Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice’
This article by ACRiSL members Aoife Nolan and Ann Skelton outlines the case for child rights-consistent child rights strategic litigation and sets out the rights model adopted by the ACRiSL project in its work