Fatima Mahamat is handed a birth certificate for her 23-day-old daughter Amina at a UNICEF-supported health facility in N’Djamena, Chad. The child's information was entered on a smart phone using a ...

(l-r) Karen Freedman of Lawyers For Children, Liberty Aldrich of Children s Law Center, and Glenn Metsch-Ampel of Lawyers For Children Courtesy photos The author of “In Secrecy and Sacrifice: ...

Is a Washington law pitting child protection against parental rights? Some people tasked with caring for abused and neglected children believe it is, and say children are dying because of it. One of ...

Child rights activists praise Union Budget 2026-27 for increased allocation, signaling renewed focus on children's welfare ...

[In state’s child protection statute and/or where “abuse and neglect” and/or “best interests of the child” are defined, add] A parent has the fundamental right to direct the care and upbringing of the ...

UN Special Rapporteur on the sale, sexual exploitation, and sexual abuse of children Fatima Singhateh welcomed on Thursday efforts from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to combat child sale and ...

18 December is International Migrants Day. To mark this day, we honour the contributions of migrants throughout the Eastern and Southern Africa region and make a call to action for their rights to be ...

Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Australia, Canada and New Zealand share ...

The conclave seeks to strengthen the legal and social framework required to ensure a child-centric environment in the State ...

Advocates of the Bauchi State Child Protection Law have challenged the media to champion the advocacy for the implementation of the law in the state. The challenge is contained in a communique issued ...

A Minnesota family’s chances of being reported for child maltreatment vary dramatically depending on their race. So does the likelihood a kid will be removed from their family, or reunited with them ...

Child rights activist urges establishment of oversight committees to ensure effective implementation of recommendations, stressing proactive monitoring drives real change and safeguards vulnerable chi ...