Child Rights Governance

To promote good governance, one of the priorities for Save the Children is to ensure that the government listens to children’s views and prioritises child rights in public decisions, including resource decisions.

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) pre-sessions were introduced in 2012, with the dual aim. Firstly, to create a platform for the civil society to directly advocate to government delegations in advance of the UPR session and secondly, to update diplomatic delegations on countries’ human rights situation.

15th Session of Child Parliament took place on 21 December 2017 with the concern raised about the increasing violence against children. More than 150 children from all over Bangladesh attended this session and presented their views on the present situation of crimes and violence against children. They also made a number of recommendations to address the issue.