Children’s Rights Management: Submit Comments on Proposal for New ISO Technical Committee

As the U.S. member body to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) seeks comments by Tuesday, June 10, on an initial draft proposal for a new ISO Technical Committee (TC) on Children’s rights management.

IST (the ISO member for Iceland) has submitted the initial draft proposal with the following scope: “Standardization in the field of children’s rights, to support the implementation of protection rights, provision rights, and participation rights.” Further details note that the TC will work to support existing international frameworks, in particular the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and that, where appropriate, the TC will work in cooperation with existing ISO committees on subjects that may support children’s rights.

The proposal references the following existing committees that address themes relevant to children's rights, noting opportunities for collaboration and cross-referencing:

• ISO/TC 176, Quality management and quality assurance, where child rights considerations could be integrated into organizational processes and stakeholder engagement
• ISO/TC 309, Governance of organizations, which could benefit from child-specific governance guidance, including safeguarding, transparency, and accountability
• ISO/TC 304, Healthcare organization management, where standards on child-friendly and trauma-informed healthcare environments would be relevant

View the proposal for more information. Attached to the proposal is Form A, a document by ISO staff assessing the relationship of this proposal to existing ISO committees and projects.

Submit comments to Sara Desautels, ANSI senior director of international policy, at [email protected] by close of business on Tuesday, June 10. All input ANSI receives will be used to develop the ANSI representative input to the ISO Technical Management Board.