Parenting and children are so important that in 1959, the United Nations General Assembly designated November 20th as an annual celebration of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of the Child as it drafts General Comment No. 27 on children’s rights to access to justice and ...

On October 11, the UN Child Rights Committee (the Committee) ruled on a historic communications procedure brought forward by 16 children (plaintiffs) against Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and ...

UN Special Rapporteur on the sale, sexual exploitation, and sexual abuse of children Fatima Singhateh welcomed on Thursday efforts from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to combat child sale and ...

Children constitute over 40 per cent of forcibly displaced and stateless persons. Situations of forced displacement and statelessness can have a lifelong, devastating impact on the lives and ...

Youth in Minneapolis are working to make their hometown a better place to live, as part of the UNICEF Child Friendly Cities Initiative. UNICEF USA staff members joined local youth leaders at a ...

UNICEF USA is working with partners including Unchained at Last to end child marriage in the United States. Eleven U.S. states have already passed legislation banning marriage before the age of 18, ...

British International School of Chicago-Lincoln Park is empowering children by teaching them their rights, amplifying their voices and celebrating advocacy. When Carlie Ennis’ class simulated ...

A new report by P.E.I.’s Office of the Child and Youth Advocate has given the province a failing grade on its work to uphold ...