Summary: This guide aims to increase the legal community's awareness of lesbian, gay, transexual and questioning (LGBTQ) youth in foster care and the issues they face. It provides tools for lawyers and judges to aid their advocacy and decision...
The United States is failing to protect hundreds of thousands of children engaged in often gruelling and dangerous farmwork, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch called on Congress to amend federal law that permits...
Summary: Urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture[WASHINGTON, DC, 29 April 2010] - Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) has found children and adults with disabilities tortured and abused at a “special needs”...
Summary: KYE Factory in China produces for Microsoft and other US companies.The world's biggest technology companies are failing to stamp out child labour and abusive working conditions in their Chinese factories despite repeated accounts of human...
This 88-page report presents new data analysed for Human Rights Watch by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) of Syracuse University. The data show that 53 per cent of the 1.4 million transfers have taken place since 2006, and most...
A new study released this week, co-authored by First Star, a nonprofit advocacy group for neglected and abused children, and the Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego Law School, has concluded that states across the US are...
Summary: Table of selected laws on violence against children; includes U.S. federal law and state law from New York and Illinois.The United States has extensive and complex laws addressing violence against children. There are both federal and state...
In this 70-page report, the ACLU and Human Rights Watch found that students with disabilities made up 18.8 per cent of students who suffered corporal punishment at school during the 2006-2007 school year, although they constituted just 13.7...
[WASHINGTON, 3 June 2009] - U.S. children’s quality of life is expected to decline through 2010 due to the impacts of the financial crisis, said a new report by the Foundation for Child Development (FDC), released last week.According to the...
Doorways is a set of three manuals designed for teachers, students and volunteer community counselors. Together these individuals can create a critical mass that brings about transformative, lasting change in both the classroom and larger community...
