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 [email protected].

TRANSPARENCY: Independent panel urges changes in using UN soldiers
18 Jun 2015 News
An independent panel reviewing UN peacekeeping operations recommended sweeping changes on Tuesday to make the soldiers more accountable for sexual abuse and other crimes.
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MALTA: Gov't launches new policy to help schools address needs of trans, intersex students
16 Jun 2015 News
Activists have welcomed the policy, which recommends an end to gender segregation in schools through things like uniforms, sports lessons, as well as facilities like toilets. 
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CENTRAL AMERICA: Gang violence fuelling child marriage, researchers say
15 Jun 2015 News
Although there is little data on the impact of gang violence on child marriage, anecdotal evidence shows girls are getting married and coupled with gang members, which they see as a form of protection from gang violence and intimation from other gangs. 
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ITALY: Court condemns the City of Rome over 'nomadic camp'
15 Jun 2015 News
The court decision marks the first time in Europe that a State-sanctioned Roma-only settlement is ruled discriminatory. 
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ZIMBABWE: Courts are seeing 'consenting' sex with over-12s as unproblematic, activists say
15 Jun 2015 News
Courts appear to be trivialising child sex abuse, activists say, as child rapists are being acquitted as long as the child is over the age of 12 and appears to have consented. 
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PUBLIC HEALTH: More than one in four US children exposed to violence involving weapons
9 Jun 2015 News
Although medical associations largely see gun violence as a public health threat, with 10,000 children killed or injured by firearms each year in the US, efforts to address gun violence from a public health standpoint have been met with considerable resistance. 
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CANADA: Forced schooling of aboriginal children was ‘cultural genocide,’ truth commission finds
9 Jun 2015 News
The findings are part of a report documenting widespread physical, cultural and sexual abuse at government-sponsored residential schools run mostly by churches that Indian, Inuit and other indigenous children were forced to attend. 
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ARMED CONFLICT: Ban Ki-moon leaves Israel off list of countries that kill or injure children
9 Jun 2015 News
UN secretary general does not include Israel or Hamas but says number of dead and wounded Palestinian children is unacceptable. 
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ARMED CONFLICT: Thirty-seven countries join campaign to protect schools from attacks
8 Jun 2015 News
Dozens of countries have signed up for a Safe Schools Declaration in response to the deliberate targeting of education in war and terror attacks.
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DEATH PENALTY: Rights groups urge Pakistan to call off juvenile execution
8 Jun 2015 News
Shafqat Hussain is expected to be hanged on Tuesday for an offence he 'confessed' to committing after nine days of torture.  
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IRAN: Female genital mutilation practice revealed
4 Jun 2015 News
A report shows that FGM is being practiced in several areas of the country, while country's authorities stay silent.
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TRANSPARENCY: UN chief orders review of handling of claims of child abuse by French soldiers
3 Jun 2015 News
Ban Ki-moon announced the establishment of an external independent review to examine the UN's handling of allegations of child sexual abuse in the Central African Republic by French peace-keepers. 
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