Child

2026

Access to Justice

Children's Rights and Criminal Justice

This executive education programme covers in its first part the legal framework regarding the minimum age of criminal responsibility and child-friendly justice, including the right of children to be heard in judicial proceedings. The second part explores...

2026

Strategic Litigation

Guide on strategic litigation for lawyers and civil society organizations: Strategies to end immigration detention of children through international remedies

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has published the Guide on strategic litigation for lawyers and civil society organizations: Strategies to end immigration detention of children through international remedies aimed at strengthening...

Second Edition of the Terminology Guidelines for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

2025

Violence Against Children

Second Edition of the Terminology Guidelines for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

Developed by a global Interagency Working Group, these guidelines provide updated, survivor-centred, and precise language to describe sexual exploitation and abuse of children — helping professionals, policymakers, and the media use words that protect...

2025

Child Protection

Towards Integrated Child Protection Systems - Challenges, promising practices and ways forward

This report presents the findings of research conducted by the FRA on existing child protection systems across all EU Member States. The 27 national reports, commissioned from Franet, the agency’s multidisciplinary research network, are available...

ARISAChild - Enhanced Capacity Training for Professionals Working with Convicted Children

2025

Children Accused, Suspected & Convicted

ARISAChild - Enhanced Capacity Training for Professionals Working with Convicted Children

The ARISA Child Training Course, entitled "Enhanced Capacity Training for Professionals Working with Convicted Children", is an e-learning course created within the ARISA Child (Assessing the Risk of Isolation of Suspects and Accused - Enhancing the Capacity...

The Rights of Children who are Exposed to Domestic Violence Cases

2025

Child Victims & Witnesses

The Rights of Children who are Exposed to Domestic Violence Cases

This factsheet has been drafted by the Child-Friendly Justice European Network, with the support of the European Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence 

Handbook: Child-Friendly Justice in Europe

2025

Children's Rights

Handbook: Child-Friendly Justice in Europe

The Handbook lists resources and tools developed by the CFJ-EN and its members (manuals, toolkits, position papers, training material, research reports, etc.), legislation and main case law on CFJ at regional level, as well as main events related...

2025

Children in Migration

Children's Rights and Migration

This executive training programme focuses on children's rights in the context of migration, discussing both international legal frameworks and social science research. It also explores policy perspectives related to migrant children and encourages critical...

Child Protection Strategies and Policies

2025

Children's Rights

Child Protection Strategies and Policies

This executive education programme explores the concept of child protection in the child-family-state triangle and provides a comparative overview of child protection systems in Europe and the USA, Latin America and the Caribbean, and West Africa. It...

2025

Children's Rights

Postgraduation in Children’s Rights

The Postgraduation in Children’s Rights is part of the Chair of the Policy Centre for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and will focus on the rights and interests of children from a legal perspective, with a transversal and...

Collaborating with children and young people with lived experience of the justice system. A how-to guide for practitioners and decision-makers

2025

Child Participation & Empowerment

Collaborating with children and young people with lived experience of the justice system. A how-to guide for practitioners and decision-makers

The CFJ-EN developed a practical guide to support a meaningful, safe, and ethical participation of children and young people with lived experience of the justice in decision-making processes, events, and projects that affect them. Grounded in the...

2025

Access to Justice

Libro Bianco - Bridge The Gap

Questo Libro Bianco nasce all’interno di Bridge the Gap, un progetto di Defence for Children Italia, realizzato in collaborazione con l’Università di Genova e co-finanziato dall’Unione Europea nell’ambito del Child Friendly...