The Child Rights Barometer is a representative study of the situation of children and young people in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It surveys children and adolescents themselves about their well-being and their lives. The Child Rights Barometer shows how child rights are realized in Switzerland and Liechtenstein from the perspective of children and young people. Conducted regularly, it can identify changes over longer periods and help determine the need for action.

There is no representative and regularly collected data on the child rights situation of children and young people in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, especially from their own perspective. It is therefore unclear how they are doing and where the most urgent need for action exists.

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child stresses this problem regularly as part of the Monitoring procedure on the implementation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child in both countries.

The "KidsRights Index 2023" confirms this need for action. This annual global ranking measures how child rights are respected worldwide and to what extent countries are committed to improving the rights of children. Switzerland is ranked 30th out of the 193 countries assessed, while its neighbors are ranked considerably higher. No data has been collected for Liechtenstein.

The Child Rights Barometer is currently in development. The first survey is planned for 2024. Publication of the first study findings is planned for 2025.

The Child Rights Barometer should be as representative as possible. Care is therefore taken that the random sampling is representative of children and young people in Switzerland and Liechtenstein in all important aspects including age, gender, education, income and place of residence. It undertakes to survey young people from all language regions and cantons as well as young people in Liechtenstein.

The project involves the participation of children and young people across all of Switzerland and Liechtenstein in several project phases:

Young people are involved in workshops to develop the study, accompany the project as part of an advisory council, and be surveyed themselves as experts on their living environments.

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