Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of all UN Treaty Bodies and their follow-up procedures. This does not include the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which are...
Summary: Information about institutions in the United States that monitor children's rights.Children's Ombudspersons
According the United States based National Conference of State Legislatures, twenty-two of the United States have established a...
Summary: General overview of the United States' national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to conduct further research.National laws on children's rights
Status of the CRC in national law
The United States has signed...
Summary: This is an interview with Maia Szalavitz, author of "Help At Any Cost" and journalist. This interview exposes "speciality boarding schools" that only specialize in child abuse. These schools act with impunity from the law and must be...
This 111-page report details the harm public registration laws cause for youth sex offenders. The laws, which can apply for decades or even a lifetime and are layered on top of time in prison or juvenile detention, require placing offenders’...
Summary: This piece was written by Katie Taylor from Reprieve, a human rights organisation that promotes the rule of law around the world and strives to secure each person’s right to a fair trial. Ms Taylor gives us an insight into how the US drone...
Summary: The list of Alternative Reports submitted by NGOs for the upcoming 62nd Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The session takes place in Geneva from 14 January - 1 February 2013.
Alternative Reports submitted by NGOs...
Summary: ALERT US: If you are aware of draft laws to restrict civil society activities or existing restrictions not listed below, email us at [email protected].
The role of children's rights advocates depends on the freedom to speak out...
Summary: This report looks at the United States' current laws and recent legal reform in relation to the sexual exploitation of children and child-friendly justice.This is part of a series of reports reviewing the implementation of the Optional...
