Summary: Governments should improve protections for students and teachers during wartime by explicitly outlawing attacks on schools and curtailing their use by the military, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
[20 July 2011] - The...
Summary: Continuing with this series of reports, the 2011 Cross-Cutting Report on Children and Armed Conflict now provides data on and analysis of trends in 2010.Summary and conclusions of the report
2010 was a year of consolidation and...
Summary: CDI launched the report in New York on 30 June at an event co-hosted by the Permanent Missions of Canada and Germany to the United Nations.[30 June 2011] - Across the globe, a dramatic gap exists between efforts and outcomes in...
Summary: Joint statement by the Consortium for Street Children1 to the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child on the commemoration of the 21st edition of the Day of the African Child on 16 June 2011 under the theme: ‘All together...
The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability.
People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower...
Children in hazardous work are in many respects the silent majority within child labour. Although they appear in photos, when it comes to action they are often eclipsed by forms of child labour that have captured the public eye, such as ...
Summary: The highlight of this issue is that from 28 February to 1 March 2011, The African Child Policy Forum and the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, in collaboration with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights...
(11 May 2011) - Both States and armed non-State actors (NSAs) often fail to respect and protect civilians in armed conflict situations. Yet for civilian populations, it doesn’t matter who is violating their rights. It matters how their rights...
Summary: On 25 March, the Human Rights Council adopted a text on the review of the work and functioning of the Council. The agreed text has been passed to the General Assembly, the Council's parent body, to be endorsed and is currently being...
The report denounces the invisibility of children within international debates and immigration policies on the issue as well as the lack of adequate policies to address their specific needs. It voices their experiences on having left their homes and...
