Greta & Divina honoured by Dutch children’s organisation
A Dutch children’s rights organisation has awarded its annual prize to 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg and a 14-year-old peace campaigner from Cameroon. KidsRights has given its International Children’s Peace Prize to Thunberg and peace activist...Read moreWorld leaders’ inaction on climate change has violated children’s rights – Thunberg
Teenage campaigner Greta Thunberg and fellow young activists have filed an official complaint to the UN claiming world leaders’ inaction on the climate crisis has violated children’s rights. The petitioners, aged from 8 to 17 and...Read more
Amnesty International – ‘Let children strike over climate change’
The head of Amnesty International has made an extraordinary, personal appeal to thousands of schools to let pupils take part in planned global climate strikes. Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of the global human rights movement, believes...Read more