[13 December 2007] - Discrimination threatens lives in emergencies, and governments and aid agencies should pay more attention to the needs of vulnerable groups who suffer most in disasters, the Red Cross said in a report released on Thursday....
[LONDON, 12 December 2007] - Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls today launched the ‘Children’s Plan’, a long term vision to improve schools and a step-change in the way parents and families are...
The organised crime of child trafficking into the UK has become an issue of considerable concern to all professionals with responsibility for the care and protection of children. Many describe it as modern-day slavery, where victims are coerced,...
[3 December 2007] - The UK Government’s strategy against poverty and social exclusion, pursued since the late 1990s, has lost momentum and is in urgent need of a major rethink. This is the conclusion of the authors of the tenth annual...
Summary: Report to follow[20 November 2007] - The UK government has been criticised today over key aspects of children's human rights in a report highlighting how youngsters in custody are being handcuffed or have needed oxygen after being...
Summary: Organised by the Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex and UNICEF Innocenti Research CentreThis report is based on the contributions from the speakers at the Workshop on Independent Child...
[17 October 2007] - More and more States worldwide are reforming their laws to prohibit all corporal punishment of children, including in their homes. A new report by the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children analyses the...
[16 October 2007] - Adults are often too scared to work with young people for fear of being branded a paedophile, according to a new report. A survey by Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People revealed that the fear of being accused of...
[10 October 2007] - New research published by the charity Victim Support today reveals a complex cycle of violent crime among young people in the UK that challenges pre-conceived ideas that young people are simply either victims or offenders....
The two brothers walked through our office doors at AFRUCA. Amidst flowing tears and endless sobbing, they recounted details of their terrible experiences spanning many years at the hands of various relatives to whom they were sent as children for a...
