Meet our advisors

Experts across ages, experiences and backgrounds guided the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child and General Comment No.26 steering group in creating, and raising  awareness about, General Comment No. 26.

Children’s Advisory Team

Aniva
Pacific Islands
Pacific Climate Activist
Bach
Vietnam
Climate Advocate
Elisabeth
Rwanda
Climate Influencer and Child Rights Activist
Esmeralda
Peru
Climate Activist
Francisco
Colombia
Citizen, Climate Activist and Defender of Life
George
Zambia
Children’s Rights Activist
Kartik
India
Climate and Child Right Activist
Madhvi
United States of America
ZeroWaste, EcoEthics and Climate Justice Activist
Maya-Natuk
Greenland
Children's Rights Activist and Climate Change Activist

(1) All references to Kosovo should be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).

Advisory Board

Agnès Gracia Corberó
Programme Officer, Child Rights Connect
Aoife Nolan
Professor of International Human Rights Law, School of Law, University of Nottingham
Benjamin Schachter
Human Rights Officer, Environment and Climate Change
Brianna Fruean
Activist and Environmental Advocate
Chiara Liguori
Policy Adviser and Researcher – Climate Justice
Chiara Sacchi
Environmental Activist
Dr. David R. Boyd
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment
Gautam Narasimhan
Global Lead for Climate, Energy, and Environment, UNICEF
Helena Gualinga
Environmental and Indigenous Rights Defender

Steering Group

Jonas Schubert, Lead Coordinator and Drafting

Joni Pegram, Technical Expertise and Drafting 

Katie Reid,  Child Participation and Children’s Advisory Team

Wannakarn Opassatien, Communications and Outreach      

Bruna Leite, Regional Consultations    

Mélina Zingg, Children’s Advisory Team