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].

CHILD ABUSE: French troops suspended over Burkina Faso abuse allegations
2 Jul 2015 News
Allegations include abuse of five-year-old girl, police say, and follow alleged sex abuse scandal involving French troops in Central African Republic
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TURKEY: Top court rules that compulsory religious education is unlawful
30 Jun 2015 News
The plaintiffs behind the challenge argued that compulsory religious education did not comply with their religious and philosophical beliefs. 
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SPORTS: Children's commissioner wants more rights for footballers as young as 10
30 Jun 2015 News
Scotland's commissioner for children and young people has told lawmakers that professional football clubs are exploiting children as young as 10 by tying them to binding legal agreements and treating them as financial commodities.     
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NETHERLANDS: Remove age limits on right to die, say paediatricians
30 Jun 2015 News
The Dutch Paediatric Association says the country should follow Belgium in changing law on euthanasia and scrapping age limit for children in unbearable suffering. 
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UNITED NATIONS: Peacekeepers accused of new child sex abuse claims
26 Jun 2015 News
This is the third case of alleged child sexual abuse involving foreign troops in Central African Republic to have surfaced in recent months.
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Report on CRIN's legal advocacy workshop in Ukraine
26 Jun 2015 News
Child Rights International Network (CRIN) on May 14-15 held a workshop on legal advocacy in Kiev, Ukraine. Workshop ...
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SINGAPORE: Convicted teenage blogger placed in mental health detention
24 Jun 2015 News
Teenage blogger Lee Kuan Yew, who was convicted of obscenity and insulting Christianity after he posted a video criticising the late leader Lee Kuan Yew, will be detained for two weeks in a mental health institute until a psychiatric assessment is performed, a court has decided.   
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UNITED NATIONS: Resolution on 'Protection of the Family' threatens children's rights
24 Jun 2015 News
A draft resolution ‘protection of the family’ is back on the agenda at the Human Rights Council and seeks to restrict the rights of individuals within the family, in particular women and children.
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VIOLENCE: Gov'ts accused of ‘perpetrating violence against women’
23 Jun 2015 News
ActionAid report says officials are ignoring laws to end violence against women, curbing funding of women’s groups, and failing to defend activists. 
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TRANSPARENCY: Ban appoints panel to investigate UN response to sexual abuse allegations
23 Jun 2015 News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed a panel to investigate the response of the United Nations to allegations of sexual abuse surrounding a deployment of foreign military forces in the Central African Republic.
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BRAZIL: Organisations call on State to reject bill to lower age of criminal majority
22 Jun 2015 News
Statement by civil society organisations calling on the government of Brazil to refrain from adopting the draft constitutional reform bill proposing to lower the age of criminal majority from 18 to 16 years of age.
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ARMED CONFLICT: Protecting children in war zones is a moral imperative and legal obligation
19 Jun 2015 News
UN Security Council expands its Children and Armed Conflict Agenda, adding abductions as trigger for inclusion of parties to conflict on the ‘list of shame’.
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