This month, the Bond Group for Child Rights – a coalition of organisations that aims to ensure that children's rights are at the forefront of the UK government's international development and foreign policy and practice – published an alternative report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The report, Protecting Children's Rights Worldwide, will inform the UN committee's review of the UK government's performance in implementing children's rights in accordance with its obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
The report highlights the UK government's extraterritorial obligations to protect, respect and fulfil children's rights. Extraterritorial obligations are obligations owed by states to people outside of their own territory. They arise when states exercise authority, power or control over people or situations outside of their territory, potentially affecting the enjoyment of human rights.
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