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These 10 countries are the best at respecting children’s rights

A new study uses United Nations data to measure how children’s rights are respected across the globe….

Child labour, marriages on rise in Yemen as COVID spreads

The U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday its work in Yemen was near a “potential breaking point” as coronavirus spreads in the war-damaged country,…

Stop Backsliding on Use of Child Soldiers

When I joined Human Rights Watch more than two decades ago, I quickly became involved with a global campaign to stop the use of child soldiers. …

In Pictures: Eid al-Fitr in the time of coronavirus

Displaced children play at a camp near the town of Maaret Misrin in Syria’s northwest Idlib province in the holiday of Eid al-Fitr which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan….

What are we waiting for? Sustainable societies begin with children

In the foothills of the Himalayas, many years ago, I met a small, skinny child labourer. He asked me: “Is the world so poor…

War in Yemen forces more girls into child marriage

When 12-year-old Hind visited her father in jail a few months ago, he told her she was to marry a fellow inmate. Her groom, 30, had been sentenced to death….