The COVID-19 pandemic is drastically hindering progress on key childhood challenges like poverty, health and access to education, says the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, spelling the biggest global crisis for children since it was founded...Read more
A taskforce of some of the EU’s most prominent child rights organisations has thrown its weight behind the European Child Guarantee, aimed at making sure impoverished children have access to the most basic human rights.Read more
‘The climate crisis a child rights crisis’ – that’s the critical message to world leaders at COP26 as more countries are urged to make their climate policies more child-centred.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 Council of Europe, which upholds human rights across the continent, has clashed with Germany over why the country has not formally embedded children’s rights and interests into the national constitution.Read more
The reopening of schools globally for face-to-face teaching ‘cannot wait any longer’, two of the world’s most high-profile charities have said.Read more
The devastating impacts of the COVID pandemic on children’s lives globally has been far worse than first feared, says an influential child rights organisation.Read more
Children are ‘invisible’ in many European countries’ National Recovery and Resilience Plans that will frame how special post-COVID EU Recovery Funds are spent.Read more
The German Parliament (Bundestag) has introduced a new law aimed at modernising child and youth welfare, and improving how children and young people are protected. Read more
‘About one in three internet users today are children. These are the lucky ones: the children whose parents or guardians can afford devices and data that allow them to continue their schooling at a time when...Read more
Renewing global confidence in vaccines, addressing challenges to youth mental health and wellbeing, fighting discrimination, tackling climate change, and bridging the digital divide are the biggest opportunities for children that the COVID-19 pandemic has presented...Read more
You have just a week to submit your abstract for the International Child in the City Foundation’s Seminar, How to make children’s rights mainstream in local policy planning? which takes place on 17-18 June 2021.Read more
The International Child in the City Foundation and the City of Cascais invite you to submit your abstract for the Child in the City Seminar How to make children’s rights mainstream in local policy planning? on...Read more
