On 12 May 2025, ISS Professor of International Law and Development Karin Arts was an invited speaker at the 26th session of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development in Geneva.
The special interactive dialogue session on ‘Children, Future Generations and the Right to Development’ explored the intersection of children’s rights, the rights of future generations and the right to development, and their relevance to one another.
Karin Arts' contribution explained the meaning and implications of a child rights-based approach to the Right to Development (RTD) and was based on earlier research on the RTD and children’s rights and on some findings of the KidsRights Index project.
The former has been referenced in: Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development, Surya Deva, Report on ‘Right to Development of Children and Future Generations’, UN doc. A/HRC/47/43, 24 July 2024, footnote 25.
The session was chaired by H.E. Zamir Akram, Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group.
Other panelists were:
- Hynd Ayoubi Idrissi, member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Surya Deva, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development
- Miloon Kothari, independent expert on human rights and social policy
- Anne Mahrer, Co-President of Senior Women for Climate Protection (KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz)
- Irfan Pullani, Group of Advocates for the Right to Development (GARtD)
- Speaker
- Related links
- KidsRights Index