The Inter-American Court confirms obligation to prohibit all corporal punishment. Read more here.The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held its 134th session from 16-27 March 2009. This year marks the Commission's 50th anniversary....
A new report released by Phoenix Children’s Hospital in collaboration with a researcher at the University of Michigan concludes that there is little evidence that physical punishment improves children’s behaviour in the long-term....
Every year in the United States at least 220,000 children in public schools are subjected to corporal punishment, or "paddling." Permitted in 21 states, the practice leaves many children injured and disengaged from the process of learning...
Conditions of care for unaccompanied immigrant children in the custody of the U.S. government have markedly improved over the last six years, but more must be done to protect the safety and basic rights of these vulnerable children, cautions the...
Texas has long been held up as the poster child for abstinence-only sexuality education. In fact, Texas consistently leads the nation by a wide margin in federal abstinence education dollars more than $18 million in 2007 alone. What has not been...
A Child Alone and Without Papers, released today by the Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP), reveals what happens to more than 43,000 undocumented, unaccompanied children removed annually from the United States and repatriated to their home...
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] - La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) celebró su 133º período ordinario de sesiones del 15 al 31 de octubre de 2008. Durante las sesiones se aprobaron informes...
Skip to: child rights hearings – update on the Rapporteurship on Child Rights[WASHINGTON, D.C., 31 October 2008] - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held its 133rd session from 15-31 October 2008. During the session, the...
[NEW YORK, 27 October 2008] - Teachers in New York City public schools say that punitive approaches toward children, such as aggressive policing, suspensions and other reactive strategies, undermine the human right to education by failing...
By any measure, as the 20th century closed, the US continued to fail miserably in ensuring the rights of all its children to be healthy, safe, and secure in their own homes and communities… Patricia K. Susi, The Forgotten Victims of Domestic...
