Stronger action is needed to uphold children’s rights in a world where they are increasingly under threat due to conflicts, rising poverty and climate impacts, the head of the UN Children’s Fund, ...

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Monday released its review of the fifth to seventh periodic reports on Brazil’s state programs under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and its ...

In a joint statement, the UN bodies emphasized that imposing life sentences or excessively long detention on children runs counter to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which El Salvador is ...

Sri Lanka, April 7 -- New laws aimed at protecting children from corporal punishment and psychological harm are expected to be enacted soon.