Parenting and children are so important that in 1959, the United Nations General Assembly designated November 20th as an annual celebration of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the ...
What is children’s rights law? In essence, it is the point where the law intersects with a child’s life. It is juvenile delinquency and the need to ensure that children involved in the criminal legal ...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of the Child as it drafts General Comment No. 27 on children’s rights to access to justice and ...
Learn what US parents' rights laws cover, why they are controversial, and whether they could face constitutional challenges.
I Have Rights! filmed in Timor-Leste, has an emotive and personal style and conveys the message that children’s rights are universal and cannot be taken for granted. “I have rights!” is the title of ...
A concentration of greenhouse gases, rising sea levels, and warming, acidifying oceans – these represent a clear threat to children’s health, and even their right to life. The UN World Meteorological ...
We, the undersigned individuals, are scholars, experts, and researchers on the education, development, wellbeing, and rights of children and adolescents. We write to express our support for a new ...
Since its creation, the United Nations has prioritized protecting the rights and safety of children as central to its efforts to promote justice, human rights and safeguard our future. In 1946, in the ...
Recently the U.N. special representative on violence against children called on member countries to ratify two optional protocols to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child which would help ...