This event is hosted by Children’s Rights & JMACforFamilies.

For the first time ever, the United States is refusing to participate in its human rights review. Our convening will bring together advocates, scholars, system-impacted families, and international experts to expose how the U.S. family policing system (“child welfare”) operates as a machine of surveillance, control, and racialized punishment.

Grounded in lived experience and shared resistance, the conversation will connect these domestic struggles to global human rights frameworks, underscore the U.S. government’s ongoing failures, and highlight the critical actions needed to build and strengthen communities instead.