The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child recently issued its long-awaited concluding observations on Canada’s compliance with international human rights law regarding children.Read more
The final report from the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free initiative warns that progress towards ending AIDS among children, adolescents and young women has stalled and none of the targets for 2020 were met.Read more
The European Union, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, have launched a new EU-wide programme strengthen child protection systems and provide alternatives to immigration detention.Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) and dozens more humanitarian partners have produced a new story book to help children understand and come to terms with COVID-19.Read more
Ten cities in Europe have added their weight to growing calls for more countries to take in unaccompanied migrant children from Greece’s islands and Turkish border.Read more
UN agencies say the latest relocation of a group of unaccompanied child migrants from Greece to Luxembourg is a demonstration of ‘humane and concrete’ European solidarity.
Twelve children in all had been living for several months...Read more
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
In recent months, migration to Europe has acquired a vast dynamic, with some Greek Islands and northern frontier countries struggling to cope with huge, daily movements of refugees from Syria and Afghanistan
Migration is one of...Read more
