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.

UNITED KINGDOM: Government Breaching UN Convention on Rights of the Child
2 Dec 2014 News
[1 December 2014] - United Kingdom's Children's Commissioner says the government is not protecting children from the...
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CHILD SOLDIERS: International Criminal Court Appeals Chamber upholds conviction and sentence for child recruitment
2 Dec 2014 News
The court's decision about the Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo shows that recruitment of children as child soldiers will not remain unpunished. 
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ESTONIA: Children protected from all corporal punishment
27 Nov 2014 News
Estonia has become the latest country to ban corporal punishment of children, including in the home.
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INDIA: Report on (child) slavery in textile production leads to action
27 Nov 2014 News
Indian politicans are reacting to a recent report on the situation of child slavery in spinning mills. 
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Egypt: Court sends 78 youths to jail for pro-Morsi protests
27 Nov 2014 News
A court in Egypt has given 78 youths up to five years in prison for protesting with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Egypt: Court sends 78 youths to jail for pro-Morsi protests
27 Nov 2014 News
A court in Egypt has given 78 youths up to five years in prison for protesting with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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YEMEN: Half of children's population is malnourished as hunger worsens strife
24 Nov 2014 News
Nearly half the children in Yemen are suffering from malnutrition, the agriculture minister has said, as insurgencies, water scarcity and climate change exacerbate sectarian strife in the Arabian Peninsula's poorest state.
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MONITORING: Transparency and accountability in children's rights implementation
20 Nov 2014 News
The WORLD Policy Analysis Center presents its database on States' implementation of the CRC's provisions.   
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GREECE: Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights and the competent authorities cooperate with local NGO towards ensuring child-friendly justice victims of abuse
19 Nov 2014 News
Child Advocacy Center in Greece to be established by Greek ministry with the help of NGO "The Smile of the Child"
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DR Congo: Police Killings and Enforced Disappearances in Kinshasa
18 Nov 2014 News
Police in DRC killed at least 51 youth and forcibly disappeared 33 others in the name of an anti-crime campaign
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Millions of Egyptian Children Struggle As Child Labourers
17 Nov 2014 News
“I used to get up at 8 a.m. to go with my father to plant the land and irrigate it at noon, then I went to the field in...
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Call for Contributions: OHCHR Report of Good Practices and Major Challenges in Preventing and Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation
17 Nov 2014 News
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