The pandemic has created a second crisis in India — the rise of child trafficking
27 October 2020
In recent years, India has strengthened its laws on child labour, but in the past six months — with COVID-19 taking a toll on the economy […]
27 October 2020
In recent years, India has strengthened its laws on child labour, but in the past six months — with COVID-19 taking a toll on the economy […]
22 October 2020
Court-appointed lawyers said Tuesday that they have been unable to find parents of 545 children who were separated at the U.S. border with Mexico early […]
15 October 2020
The past decade has seen a gradual increase in terrorism-related crimes; a phenomenon that is accompanied by a growing trend of involvement of children and youth […]
14 October 2020
Quebec’s human rights commission is investigating the recent deaths of two children in Wendake, whose situation had been reported to the province’s youth protection authorities. […]
1 October 2020
A global treaty sponsored by the U.N. International Labor Organization (ILO) calling for greater protection for children against sexual exploitation, forced labor and armed conflict […]
1 October 2020
Sixth Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict in the Sudan Despite substantial progress in ending the recruitment and use of children by […]
28 September 2020
With schools closed and families desperate for income, millions of children are being forced into work that is often dangerous, arduous and illegal. It is […]
10 September 2020
Twelve million girls are married every year before they reach 18, according to UN estimates. And in its first set of global statistics on child marriage […]
4 September 2020
The federal government has consented to the certification of two class action lawsuits over funding for First Nation child welfare services and the state of […]
7 August 2020
NEW YORK, 22 July 2020 – At least 40 million children worldwide have missed out on early childhood education in their critical pre-school year as COVID-19 […]
28 July 2020
Second Country Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict in Nigeria Boys and girls in northeast Nigeria continued to endure gruesome violations at […]
17 July 2020
Ensuring the protection of schools and education as the world addresses the COVID-19 pandemic is of utmost importance reminds the Special Representative of the Secretary-General […]
8 July 2020
Worldwide, millions of children live in institutions, which runs counter to both the UN-recognised right of children to be raised in a family environment, and […]
18 March 2020
Following an extensive period of consultations and advocacy from the United Nations, the National Assembly in the Central African Republic adopted recently the Child […]
12 March 2020
he International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC), UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) today issued new guidance to help protect children and schools […]
11 March 2020
Dozens of protesters gathered outside the offices of Pornhub in Montreal Sunday accusing the website of profiting off the sex trafficking and sexual exploitation of […]
10 March 2020
In reaction to the article featuring an interview with family lawyer Valerie Assouline, I would like to express my wholehearted agreement with her position. I […]
31 January 2020
NATO has adopted its first policy on preventing and responding to sexual exploitation and abuse. The policy, which applies to all personnel, makes clear NATO’s […]
31 January 2020
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba, welcomed the release and handover by the Houthis of 64 children […]
29 January 2020
An estimated 4640 children travelled to Iraq or Syria, either alone or with their families, to join the so-called Islamic State (ISIL). Since the fall […]
21 January 2020
Nearly nine years of conflict in Syria have robbed boys and girls of their childhood and subjected them to “unabated violations of their rights”, including being killed, maimed, displaced, forced […]
16 January 2020
The complaint demands that a minimum age criterion be set which mandates that children below a certain cannot participate in protests. It also requests that […]
8 January 2020
The risk of violence faced by children affected by deprivation of liberty has been a priority for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence […]
13 December 2019
Children peer out from behind the bars into the light, scarred by intense trauma and uncertain of their future, terrified both of their prison and […]
25 November 2019
Nearly 400 children have been rescued and 348 adults arrested following an expansive and “extraordinary” international child pornography investigation, Canadian police announced Thursday. The three-year […]
12 November 2019
Though platforms bar child sexual abuse imagery on the web, criminals are exploiting gaps. Victims are caught in a living nightmare, confronting images again and […]
11 November 2019
The Pentagon’s Middle East policy chief decries new recruitment of children in Syria and the Yemen civil war. When Michael Mulroy first met Anthony Opoka, […]
1 November 2019
Researchers estimate that there are 1.1m victims of human trafficking across Europe. According to the UN almost one-third of human trafficking victims globally are children. Cases of forced criminality, […]
23 October 2019
A commission looking into youth protection services in Quebec has begun nearly six months after a girl in the care of the system died in […]
15 October 2019
The State of the World’s Children 2019: Children, food and nutrition finds that at least 1 in 3 children under five – or over 200 […]
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