WHAT WE DO
Our Activities
CRARJO’s activities are geared toward raising awareness of the principles and provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC), promoting and protecting child rights, strengthening families and facilitating education and training and advocating for facilitating the implementation of restorative practices.
As such, we are committed to:
- Delivering lectures, conducting classes, and organizing workshops, seminars and conferences on the Convention on the Rights of the Child for children and adults;
- Devising programmes to raise awareness of child rights and restorative practices and to support families in their efforts to adopt positive disciplinary practices;
- Conducting research on child rights issues;
- Monitoring the abuse of child rights in the community;
- Commenting in the media and other public forums on breaches of child rights;
- Advocating for law reform to achieve a child rights approach in existing and proposed legislation and for the inclusion of restorative justice in legislation;
- Advocating for the implementation of restorative justice in education, child justice and the criminal justice systems;
- Organizing training in restorative practices and restorative justice for persons in the justice system, social work, the prison system, business enterprises and the community;
- Publication of articles, booklets and pamphlets on child rights and restorative practices