On May 1st, 2003, the International Bureau for Children's Rights (IBCR) was granted Special Consultative Status by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). This facilitates the IBCR's contribution to the work programmes and goals of the United Nations by enabling IBCR to serve as technical expert, adviser and consultant to governments and Secretariat, as well as by participating in ECOSOC and its various subsidiary bodies through attendance at these meetings, and also through oral interventions and written statements on agenda items of those bodies.
The IBCR is also invited to attend international conferences called by the U.N., General Assembly special sessions, and other intergovernmental bodies.
In 2005 alone, IBCR took part in the Intergovernmental Experts Group Meeting to develop Guidelines on Justice in Matters Involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime (held in Vienna, Austria on 14-15 February 2005), the Eleventh UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (held in Bangkok, Thailand from 18-25 April, 2005) and the fourteenth session of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (held in Vienna, Austria, from 23-27 May, 2005). This enabled IBCR to serve as technical expert in the development of the draft UN Guidelines on Justice in Matter Involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime and to support this process, which culminated with the adoption of the UN Guidelines by ECOSOC on 22 July 2005.
Special consultative status granted to IBCR by ECOSOC
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