Child Rights International Network - CRIN

What Child Rights International Network - CRIN does

Child Rights International Network (CRIN) is a UK-based creative human rights organisation founded in 1995 that advocates for the full recognition and enforcement of children's rights internationally. Its core work combines legal policy analysis, research reports, and creative advocacy — including art exhibitions, podcasts, murals, and youth-led campaigns — to influence UN human rights bodies, national governments, and a network of more than 3,000 children's rights organisations across 45+ countries. CRIN's product portfolio includes the Children's Access to Environmental Justice (A2J) country-report database, the original Treaty Bodies Database it created in 1995 (now hosted by OHCHR), POWER and SILENCE magazines, The Big Debates digital rights series, and the Climate Advisers youth programme.

CRIN is led by Co-Directors Leo Ratledge and Lianne Minasian and operates from a headquarters in London with a Geneva representative office engaging UN treaty bodies. The organisation's go-to-market is community-led advocacy: it influences through coalitions, joint letters (signed by 200+ partners), participation in COP climate talks and the UN Environment Assembly, and strategic partnerships with UNEP, Terre des Hommes, the European Environmental Bureau, Tate Modern, and Child Rights Connect. A creative sister organisation, The Rights Studio (Berlin), was spun off in 2021.

CRIN is a non-profit funded through donations and grants rather than product sales; all resources, reports, and advocacy materials are provided free of charge. No revenue figures, funding rounds, or financial performance metrics are publicly disclosed. Headcount is approximately 16 staff plus Climate Advisers aged 18 and under, with no AI/ML or proprietary software components — the underlying technology is a website, databases, and digital content delivery rather than a technology platform.

Name

Child Rights International Network - CRIN

Legal name

Child Rights International Network

Website

https://crin.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CRIN is a UK-based creative human rights organisation founded in 1995 that advocates globally for children's rights through legal policy analysis, research reports, art-based campaigns, and a network of more than 3,000 children's rights organisations, with offices in London and Geneva.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Donations and Support: CRIN operates as a non-profit organization funded through donations and supporters. The website includes a 'Support us' section indicating reliance on charitable contributions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

CRIN is a creative human rights organization that advocates for the full recognition and respect of children's rights globally. It delivers free advocacy resources, legal research databases covering 45+ countries, policy reports, art exhibitions, magazines and podcasts aimed at influencing governments, UN bodies, and civil society on issues including environmental justice, child military recruitment, institutional sexual abuse, and digital rights.

Product overview

Child Rights International Network (CRIN) is a creative human rights organisation—not a technology company. CRIN operates as a platform of advocacy programs and resources rather than a unified product. Its portfolio includes: the Children's Access to Environmental Justice (A2J) project which provides country-specific legal analysis; The Big Debates series addressing digital rights issues; POWER and SILENCE magazines exploring themes of power and silence in human rights; the Born Polluted art exhibition on toxic chemicals; Stay-At-Home Imagination Kits for children's creative engagement; the CRIN Code framework for organisational values; Climate Advisers youth advisory program; educational resources including Children's Rights 101 and Rights Gallery; and various campaign tools and reports. These offerings are interconnected advocacy resources unified by CRIN's mission to fully recognise and respect children's rights.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Children's Access to Environmental Justice (A2J) A project providing breakdowns of environmental laws and policies across 45+ countries to help children access justice when their environmental rights are violated, including country reports, community resources, and campaigner toolkits.
• The Big Debates

Quantifiable outcome

• 28 countries banned all forms of corporal punishment during active campaign period
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• European Environmental BureaucoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023CRIN became a member of the European Environmental Bureau, the largest civil society network focused on environmental issues in Europe, supporting collaboration on children's environmental rights advocacy.
• The Rights StudiocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021A Berlin-based social enterprise and creative sister organization to CRIN, founded in 2021. The Rights Studio experiments with creative ideas and communicates through art, marking its launch with a month-long series of events. CRIN co-founder Miriam Sugranyes co-founded The Rights Studio.
• Tate ExchangemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Partnership with Tate Modern's Tate Exchange program. CRIN partnered with arts and tech organizations for the 'Uni to Unicorns' event exploring surveillance and digital rights, featuring workshops on facial recognition, emotion detection, and children's data ethics.
• Little InventorsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCreative collaboration for a creative challenge engaging children in imagining solutions for environmental protection.
• Children's Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-developed 'Our Rights, Our Planet: Stand Up for the Environment' - a free training program for young people to learn about and stand up for their environmental rights, created alongside Terre des Hommes and UNEP.
• Terre des HommescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the 'Our Rights, Our Planet' training program for young people on environmental rights.
• UN Environment Programme (UNEP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on creating the 'Our Rights, Our Planet' environmental rights training program for young people.
• defenddigitalmecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-published the report 'Privacy and Protection: A children's rights approach to encryption' capturing the full complexity of how encryption affects children's lives.
• UN Human Rights BodiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCRIN engages directly with UN committees including those covering civil and political rights, economic, social and cultural rights, disability rights, and the Committee on the Rights of the Child. Contributed to drafting child rights indicators.
• Survivor Networks in Latin AmericacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCRIN supports and works with networks led by adults who survived sexual abuse as children in institutional settings such as the Catholic Church. Includes strengthening and creating new networks to amplify survivors' demands for truth, justice, reparation and structural reforms.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Amnesty International: Global human rights advocacy organization working on civil, political, and social rights with extensive UN body access. Shares CRIN's treaty body engagement and member-driven model but covers a broader rights agenda rather than focusing on children.
• UNICEF: United Nations agency mandated to advocate for the protection of children's rights and provide humanitarian aid globally. CRIN engages directly with UNICEF on treaty body work and shared priorities, making it a key counterpart despite its vastly larger scale and official status.
• Plan International: Global NGO advancing children's rights and equality for girls with research, advocacy, and programs across many countries. Comparable in UN engagement and children's rights focus, with a much larger program footprint.
• Save the Children: Major international NGO dedicated to improving children's lives globally through programs, advocacy, and emergency response. Shares CRIN's children's rights mission but operates at substantially larger scale with service delivery rather than CRIN's policy and legal advocacy focus.
• ChildFund International: International NGO focused on child development, protection, and rights across Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Comparable children's rights mission but operates sponsorship and program delivery model rather than legal advocacy.
• Human Rights Watch: Large international human rights organization conducting research and advocacy on rights violations globally. Comparable to CRIN in its UN engagement and policy advocacy orientation, but operates across all rights rather than specializing in children's rights and runs a much larger global staff.

Direct peers

• Defence for Children International: International federation of child rights organizations advocating for children's rights and juvenile justice reform globally. Closely comparable mission and international legal advocacy model, with a federated structure of national affiliates.
• Child Rights Connect: Coalition of NGOs focused on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and listed by CRIN as a close partner publishing alternative reports. Most directly comparable organization to CRIN in mission, target institution, and civil society coalition model for children's rights.
• Terre des Hommes: International children's rights organization partnering with CRIN on the 'Our Rights, Our Planet' environmental rights training program. Comparable advocacy and program delivery model focused on children and environmental justice.

Others

• Child Soldiers International: Former NGO that campaigned to end the use of children in armed conflict and whose work was absorbed by CRIN in 2019 when it closed. Historical predecessor with overlapping mission on military recruitment of children.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/crinorg
• Instagraminstagram.com/crinorg
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/child-rights-international-network-crin

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles21 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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