Few horrors in the world rival the pain, fear, shame and guilt felt by children who are sexually abused by adults who have been entrusted with their care. For decades, hundreds of children, if not ...

World Children’s Day—celebrated every year on November 20—marks the anniversary of the United Nations’ adoption of the ...

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 ...

The story has been updated to clarify that the total number of children and youth in the child welfare system. Many come under supervision of their county Department of Children and Family Services ...

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 ...

We’ve made progress in many realms of civil rights over the past decades in the U.S. The rights of African Americans, women, gays and lesbians, and handicapped people have expanded, thanks in part to ...

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Aug. 28, 2023) — Governments will need to recognize that inaction on the climate crisis is a child rights violation, factor environmental concerns into their efforts to protect and ...

Pope Francis delivers his closing remarks at the world leaders’ summit on children’s rights at the Vatican Feb. 3, 2025, as former U.S. Vice President Al Gore listens. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) ...

As we move towards the end of 2024, CRIN looks back at the year in child rights climate litigation, and ahead to what might come next. This statement was originally published on home.crin.org on 28 ...

Building an audience on TikTok has been a way for Cam Barrett to reclaim part of her identity after spending much of her childhood as an unwitting social media influencer. As early as she can remember ...

There are 240 million children in the world who are living with a disability. UNICEF works with partners to help ensure they are not left behind as the world continues to make progress on the ...