Summary: Annually child helplines receive 11.3 million calls from children and youth needing care and protection. The report provides recommendations on the start-up and scale-up of a child helpline in Niger. It suggests the national helpline be...
بالعربيةCouncil resolution 7/3 asks that the High Commissioner for Human Rights consults with States, NGOs and others on how to better international cooperation and dialogue in the UN human rights...
Summary: This year's theme is 'Lead, Empower, Deliver'As the world takes stock of its efforts to address the epidemic, at least one children’s organisation was warning against spending cuts on HIV and AIDS in light of the global financial...
Although sandwiched between the Convention on the Right's of the Child's 18th and 20th birthdays, this year's Universal Children's Day, which falls on 20 November, has nonetheless been marked with a flurry of activity across...
A West African court has found Niger's government guilty of failing to protect a woman from slavery in a landmark case for the region. The Court of Justice of the West African regional body ECOWAS (what is this?), found in favour of Hadijatou Mani,...
[NIAMEY, 15 septembre 2008] - La population nigérienne est jeune en grande majorité, 70 pour cent de ses 13 millions d’habitants étant âgés de moins de 25 ans, selon une étude sur les enfants vuln...
The General Assembly,Reaffirming the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations, including developing friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples,...
[10 April 2008] - The Niger Delta youth movement has dragged six oil companies and the federal government before a Federal High Court in Abuja.President of the Movement, Mr. Onengiye Elekima, in his statement of claim, is suing five major oil...
[7 April 2008] - A former slave is suing Niger's government, accusing it of failing to implement laws against slavery introduced in 2003. Hadijatou Mani has brought the case before the Community Court of Justice of Ecowas, the Economic Community of...
In Arabic[3 April 2008] – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the entry into force of the first international treaty on the human rights of persons with disabilities, after the required twentieth country ratified the landmark...
