Founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 2025, CRISO is an international NGO that brings together leading experts in sport and children’s rights to make one promise real: every child who takes part in organized sport needs to be treated as a rights-holder.
CRISO fully acknowledges the unique benefits of sports for children. Sports can greatly benefit them - notably at physical, psychological, social, educational and developmental levels - when all their rights are respected. Since 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has universally recognized that every child holds human rights. All States party to this international treaty have legal obligations to respect and implement child rights in their country.
We work to ensure that the rights of children involved in sports are promoted, protected, and upheld as enshrined under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
CRISO’s mission is to confront and prevent the treatment of child athletes as fragile, expendable, or instrumental objects in adult ambitions. We advocate for the rule of law in sport, stronger safeguards, and genuine accountability across the whole ecosystem, especially between public authorities and sport federations. Above all, we champion children’s participation rights —their right to be heard, to have their views taken into account in all decisions affecting them. Every action CRISO undertakes is anchored in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which has been ratified by a record 196 States.
Guided by this framework, CRISO works so that the playing field becomes what it should always be: a place of dignity, holistic development, empowerment and justice for every child.
(We are developing this platform to support our work, please check back soon)
We work to ensure that the rights of children involved in sports are promoted, protected, and upheld as enshrined under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
CRISO’s mission is to confront and prevent the treatment of child athletes as fragile, expendable, or instrumental objects in adult ambitions. We advocate for the rule of law in sport, stronger safeguards, and genuine accountability across the whole ecosystem, especially between public authorities and sport federations. Above all, we champion children’s participation rights —their right to be heard, to have their views taken into account in all decisions affecting them. Every action CRISO undertakes is anchored in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which has been ratified by a record 196 States.
Guided by this framework, CRISO works so that the playing field becomes what it should always be: a place of dignity, holistic development, empowerment and justice for every child.
(We are developing this platform to support our work, please check back soon)