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UN-backed survey reveals that 50% of Cambodian children have experienced at least one form of violence before the age of 18, and  about 25% have been emotionally abused.

Boy from a lower caste was tortured then killed because his goat had strayed onto an upper caste man's field.

[16 October 2014] - Taking a strong stand on a range of issues from prisoners’ rights to protecting cultural property, the...

During the Third Committee's debate on children’s rights, top officials implored states to combat cybercrime and violence.

Thirteen-year-old boy shot three times in the chest during riot in village of Beit Liqya in the occupied West Bank.

Child Rights International Network has teamed up with the artist Miriam Sugranyes to put together a new exhibition at London's Southbank Centre celebrating 25 years of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

[8 October 2014] – While the fragile month-long ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is a welcome step towards ending the conflict...

[13 October 2014] – Back from her first visit to South Sudan, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary...

[3 October 2014] – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today welcomed the release of 70 Kurdish children, who were...

[2 October 2014] – A “staggering array” of gross human rights abuses and “acts of violence of an increasingly sectarian...

[16 September 2014] – Alarming circumstances such as forced evictions, drought, conflict and lack of livelihood have...

Australian government is facing two challenges in court over its policies towards asylum seekers.