Human Rights Lunch Online is a digital seminar series where Human Rights Profile Area members and guests present their latest projects and research.

Children’s Rights and Access to Justice: Why has Sweden not ratified the UN complaints procedure of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)? 

Join the digital seminar on 18 September with Rebecca Thorburn Stern, Professor of Public International Law at Uppsala University, and Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. This seminar looks at why Sweden has not ratified the UN protocol that allows children to submit complaints about violations of their rights to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. It explains the main reasons behind this decision and what it means for children’s access to justice and their rights in practice.