Bangalore, one of India’s biggest cities, is doing its bit to embrace a global road safety movement by testing out a series of ‘Safe School Zone’ areas.Read more
Six of the world’s most child-friendly cities have been rewarded for their innovation in a prestigious awards ceremony celebrating urban creativity for the benefit of young people.Read more
The United Arab Emirates city of Sharjah has set a global benchmark in best practices with the launch of the Sharjah Principles for Child-Friendly Urban Planning.Read more
‘Bold and effective commitment to children’s rights are more important than ever before in the EU, and with the EU for the world’, says UNICEF’s deputy executive director, Charlotte Petri Gornitza.Read more
China is to pilot child-friendly city schemes in around 100 cities that have a population of more than a million people and a solid economic base.Read more
The efforts of Korean cities to promote child rights have been recognised in a high-level event held by the Korean Committee for UNICEF (KCU) with mayors and local government leaders.Read more
In a historic ruling on the harmful effects of climate change on children’s rights, the UN Child Rights Committee has said that an individual country can be held responsible for the negative impact of its...Read more
Video-sharing apps like Snapchat and TikTok which are hugely popular with young people could be fined millions of pounds if they fail to tackle inappropriate content, under new rules from Ofcom, the UK’s broadcasting regulator.Read more
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) today opened its 88th session in Geneva with a special mention for the plight of children in Afghanistan.Read more
The postponed Child in the City International Seminar which had been due to start today (9 September) has been rescheduled for 19-20 May 2022.Read more
Around 23 million children did not receive routine vaccinations in 2020, which was 3.7 million more than the previous year, according to official figures by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.Read more