If swimmer Fu Yuanhui created such a stir during the Olympic Games in Rio by mentioning her periods on live television, it’s because the subject is still very much taboo in many parts of the world. In France, the debate on the tax on tampons and sanitary towels highlights a bigger problem: not all women […]

Do you want to raise awareness on children’s rights or the children’s situation in a specific country? Here is your chance to engage in promoting and improving children’s rights around the world! We are pleased to announce our photo contest starting from 24th December 2016 until the 14th January 2017.   Here are some examples […]

Rwanda has ratified the Convention on Children’s Rights and has implemented local laws, such as LAW No. 54/2011 on the protection of children’s rights as well as LAW No. 59/2008 on the prevention and repression of gender based violence. Nevertheless, there are still major children’s rights violations reported. The status of women in Rwanda has […]

Between October 2013 and August 2015, 102,327 unaccompanied children from Central America (76,572 from Central America’s Northern Triangle and 25,755 from Mexico) reached the Mexico-United States border (Sarah Pierce, Migration Policy Institute, 2015). This influx of migrants led to the tightening of police and judicial measures in the United States and Mexico, resulting in the […]

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“He greeted me with a terrifying smile, and said ‘You will be my second wife’ (UNFPA 2015). These are the words expressed by a 15-year-old Nigerien girl called Amina Mahamane, who, like countless young girls in Niger, belongs to a highly vulnerable group of girls who are forced or coerced into marriage before reaching the age […]

At The Hague Global Child Labour Conference in 2010, Lebanon made the commitment to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in its country by 2016. According to the ILO Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, these comprise; slavery in all its forms, child prostitution and pornography, children involved in illicit activities – […]

A quarter of Mexico’s population lives below the poverty line. Children have to work to support themselves. It is difficult for them to combine work and school. Work is considered worthwhile for living whereas education is perceived as an additional financial burden. Therefore, the education of a child is not a priority, even though the […]

Violations of international human rights and humanitarian law are multiplying in South Sudan: massacres of the civilian population and destruction of their property, the recruitment and use of children in the military forces and abuses of all kinds; the country is now the scene of an extremely alarming humanitarian crisis that is especially affecting children. […]