This article has been adapted from a piece originally published in Jill Filipovic’s newsletter. You can subscribe here. A new Human Rights Watch report paints a damning portrait of children’s rights ...

AFTER three days of intensive engagement, the Youth Advocacy and Climate Change Capacity Training hosted by UNICEF, in ...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflict has become more common and more intense—placing children at greater risk of ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of the Child as it drafts General Comment No. 27 on children’s rights to access to justice and ...

Few horrors in the world rival the pain, fear, shame and guilt felt by children who are sexually abused by adults who have been entrusted with their care. For decades, hundreds of children, if not ...

The Supreme Court turned away a legal battle testing whether a public school violates parents' rights when it encourages their child's social gender transition without their knowledge or consent.

Across the country, both notions are being carried to absurd extremes—at great cost to the groups they claim to represent. After a melee broke out during public comments at an Orange Unified School ...

The story has been updated to clarify that the total number of children and youth in the child welfare system. Many come under supervision of their county Department of Children and Family Services ...

Climate change is not just an environmental crisis, it’s a human rights crisis. And the humans to be most affected by climate catastrophe are the youngest ones: children. We have seen children ...

Nonprofits protect the legal rights of vulnerable children in detention and facing deportation. Handing that responsibility ...

We write in advance of the 100th Pre-Session Working Group of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and its review of Malaysia to highlight areas of concern regarding the Malaysian government’s ...

MARYLAND- A bill expanding the rights of child sex abuse survivors in Maryland is set to go into effect next week. Under The Child Victims Act of 2023 the definition of “sex abuse” will expand to ...