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Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict's report looks at how boys and girls have been forcibly recruited, detained,...

A coalition of organisations is inviting signatures to a petition which will be delivered to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

San Marino has become the latest State to achieve prohibition of all corporal punishment of children in 2014.

More than 200 women and girls were collectively raped in their village on Friday evening, reportedly by Sudanese soldiers belonging to a military garrison south of El Fasher in North Darfur.

In March 2014 a number of civil society organisations - including CRIN - launched a campaign to call for a UN Global Study...

Romanian woman who contracted HIV as a baby in hospital in 1990 will receive one million euros in compensation after a landmark court decision in the country with Europe's highest number of child AIDS victims.

Court awards compensation to victim of child sexual abuse despite expiry of statute of limitations.

Catholic church leaders accused of creating public nuisance.

Report highlights conditions of modern slavery in Indian mills, and that the abused workers should have recourse to UK courts.

Call to support the strengthening of child rights protections in World Bank safeguards. The deadline for signing the joint letter is Friday, 31 October 2014. 

A mullah who raped a 10-year-old girl in his mosque in Afghanistan has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Increasing number of migrant children are being detained in countries where they are seeking asylum despite scientific evidence that such incarceration leads to long-term psychological and developmental difficulties.