News Archive

Latest news and events on children’s rights around the world

It’s important that we know what is going on in the world. Both violations and developments in children’s rights need to be reported and shared. To alert us about a news story where you are, email info@crin.org.

IRAN: Halt execution of child offender
10 Feb 2015 News
The imminent execution of Saman Nasim, who was arrested in 2011 at the age of 17 for armed activities, has been scheduled for 19 February 2015. Despite a ban on the execution of child offenders in international law, Iran has executed 31 child offenders since 2010.  
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TRANSPARENCY: UN Committee on NGOs will not reduce transparency and accountability any further
9 Feb 2015 News
China announced that it would withdraw its proposal to withhold the names of countries that stall the application process of NGOs apply for ECOSOC status.
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MIGRATION: Deported Central American child migrants face death at home
4 Feb 2015 News
Last year, nearly 60 percent of children interviewed by the UNHCR said they had fled abroad because they feared being recruited or faced harm at the hands of armed groups.
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UZBEKISTAN: World Bank rejects child and forced labour probe
3 Feb 2015 News
“To millions of victims of forced labour in Uzbekistan, the bank has said that despite recognising the relationship between their plight and its loans, it is not worth investigating.” (Umida Niyazova, director of the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights)
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CRIN INTERNSHIP: Russian-speaking Communications and Research Intern
3 Feb 2015 News
The Child Rights International Network (CRIN) is looking for a Russian-speaking Communications and Research Intern to...
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YEMEN: US drone strike kills 13-year-old boy
3 Feb 2015 News
Mohammed Taeiman died this week on a remote Yemeni road, a casualty of a US drone campaign against the local branch of al Qaeda.
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GAZA: Hundreds of thousands of children shell-shocked after the war in Gaza
30 Jan 2015 News
Treatment is needed for 35 to 40 percent of Gaza’s million children who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder after the 50-day conflict.
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INDIA: Police rescues hundreds of trafficked child slaves from bangle-making workshop
30 Jan 2015 News
Most of the the children were trafficked away from their impoverished parents in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in exchange for 5,000 rupees ($80) as payment.
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SOUTH SUDAN: Child soldiers released following deal with state and rebels
27 Jan 2015 News
Today 280 boys returned home as part of an agreement to demobolise 3000 children over the next few weeks.
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NIGERIA: Children suffering ‘dire consequences’ of conflict
23 Jan 2015 News
[20 January 2015] – Women and children make up the vast majority of the latest wave of refugees fleeing violence in...
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SOMALIA: Government ratifies UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
20 Jan 2015 News
Somalia's ratification of the UNCRC leaves the United States and South Sudan as the only States yet to ratify the treaty. 
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CANADA: Report on murdered and missing indigenous women in British Columbia
14 Jan 2015 News
Findings show that while indigenous women are significantly over-represented as victims, the police have failed to adequately prevent and protect indigenous women and girls from killings, disappearances and extreme forms of violence.
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