‘Getting it right: ensuring child-friendly justice through Barnahus structures in Europe’ is the theme under which the Council of Europe, which works for the protection of human rights, will mark this year’s European Day on...Read more
In May 2002, Kofi Annan, the late Secretary-General of the United Nations, presided over the first General Assembly special session on children, insisting that the UN discuss the ‘future we’re preparing with them, not for...Read more
At this very moment, nearly one billion children worldwide are experiencing the pains of hunger and illness due to poverty. They cannot afford the bare necessities of life, such as clean water, heat or shelter, and...Read more
Secondary schools across London are being given a free gift of a new book co-authored by actor and human rights campaigner Angelina Jolie that empowers teenagers to know their rights, gain confidence and help to...Read more
A particular focus on the protection of children’s rights in a crisis or emergency situation is at the heart of the Council of Europe’s adoption of its conclusions on the EU strategy on the rights...Read more
The Scottish Government says funding will be provided to deliver UNICEF’s Rights Respecting Schools programme to 2,400 primary and secondary state schools across Scotland.Read more
The desperate situation facing many children forced to leave war-ravaged Ukraine is dominating the agenda at this week’s gathering of the European Network of Children’s Commissioners (ENOC).
ENOC is a non-profit body of independent children’s rights...Read more
They might be providing healthier environments for children within their own borders, but some of the world’s richest countries like The Netherlands, Finland and Iceland are ‘disproportionately contributing to the destruction of the global environment’.
Children’s...Read more
In just a few days we’ll be welcoming you to the Portuguese city of Cascais, to debate, learn and share with each other ideas for ensuring children’s rights are part of the mainstream.Read more
A Dutch court has made a controversial ruling that children do not have a fundamental right to water at home if their parents have failed to pay the bill.Read more
A landmark new children’s rights strategy has been designed guide the Council of Europe’s member states in protecting and promoting the rights of the child.
Ministers and children’s rights representatives from across the council’s 46 countries...Read more
The ongoing violence across Ukraine has created a child rights crisis that could last for generations, says children’s charity UNICEF.
A month of war has led to the displacement of 4.3 million children – more than...Read more
Children have participated in protests against nuclear weapons, wars, the loss of Māori land and customary rights, racism and child poverty. Young people themselves led the School Strike 4 Climate marches.Read more
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A woman who arrived in Wales aged one after her family fled the Chilean dictatorship in the 1970s is to be the country’s new Children’s Commissioner.Read more
