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Every right, for every child.
All children have the same rights.
This is a summary for children of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Police in Pakistan said the 10-year-old boy and his younger brother were tortured for days at their employer’s home.
The true story of an Olympic legend.
All you need to know about history, significance and theme.
Chocolate makes for a perfect gift, a comforting snack and even a health food, thanks to its plentiful antioxidants. Rumor has it that it might even work as an aphrodisiac. It is no surprise, then, that the chocolate industry garners billions of dollars each year.
However, there is also a dark side to chocolate.
Domboué Nibéissé is 15 years old and enjoys being back at school after having spent several years working in cotton fields in Burkina Faso.
MPs are questioning the absence of protection for ‘kidfluencers’ – children who are influencers – against exploitation.
England should follow the lead of Scotland and Wales by banning smacking, the children’s commissioner has said.
Following a U-turn over re-opening girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan, the UN human rights chief shared her ‘profound frustration and disappointment’ that six months after the Taliban seized power, high school girls have yet to return to the classroom.
Given the conscription of men aged 18 to 60 in Ukraine, the majority of Ukrainians fleeing into neighbouring countries are women and children.
Former director of education at the London borough where Child Q was humiliated said the incident reminded him of Apartheid South Africa
Ministers have failed to see that an absence of care and nurturing lies at the heart of harms to children, says Carolyne Willow.
Unicef has predicted that air pollution will become the leading cause of child mortality by 2050.
In many countries, girls are the first victims when children’s human rights are violated and they often suffer double discrimination: for their age and for their gender. They are more discriminated against than boys, for being minors and female. Furthermore, this double discrimination can become triple discrimination if one adds other factors, such as being poor or disabled, or belonging to a minority group.
In the last decade, child labour has decreased by 38%; however, 152 million children are still affected and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the situation. Child labour reaches many different corners across the world, often occurring in various sectors that can have detrimental educational, health and psychological impacts on children’s well-being. There are various drivers of child labour such as poverty, armed conflict, inadequate laws and regulations, social inequality, discrimination and ingrained cultural traditions to name a few.
In past ages, children were their parents’ property and not considered persons of their own. That changed in the 20th century.
By Sabine Balk
It’s the one type of slavery the West ignores.
By Ayaan Hirst Ali
A new report presented to the Human Rights Council says that maximising children’s privacy in the digital age means acting in their best interests, actively seeking children’s views and treating those views seriously
KidsRights Foundation has published its annual KidsRights Index and revealed that the negative impacts of the global pandemic on children across the world is far worse than first feared.
This is a summary for children of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
