DCI STATEMENTS
As part of our advocacy and lobbying efforts at the international level, Defence for Children International delivers a number of oral and/or written statements, especially before the United Nations Human Rights Council. These statements are targeted to raise issues of pressing concern before UN member states.
Violence against women and girls with disabilities – Annual Day on the Human Rights of Women
This statement is delivered on behalf of Save the Children, Plan International and Defence for Children International, International Disability Alliance and Child Rights Connect. Girls
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women – Joint NGOs statement
65th Session General Debate New York, 15-26 March Excellencies, colleagues, I make this statement today on behalf of: Plan International, CARE International, ChildFund Alliance, Child
The 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
As emphasised in the outgoing Rapporteur’s report, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated social and economic inequalities and, if urgent action is not taken, we
The 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council
HRC 47th session Item 2: Interactive dialogue on the report of the High Commissioner on the central role of the State in responding to pandemics
The 47 th session of the UN Human Rights Council / Statement by DCI-Brazil
https://youtu.be/3_BjhHZl2v0Brazil’s political and economic crisis, prolonged by COVID-19, poses a challenge for regional and international security. Indeed, the current social instability in Brazil spearheaded by
New statement on child rights in the OPT
On February 5, the Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided that the Court’s territorial jurisdiction in the Situation in Palestine extends
