Childrens Rights

A Little Girl Named Annie, and a Man With a Gun

Pam Allyn | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Children's Village, Gun Control, Polo Grounds, Children's Rights, New York Impact, Youth Violence, Gun Control Laws, Youth Violence Prevention, Annie Fryar, New York News

The children who live here are precious children and their lives are glowing with the potential of who they are and who they can become. But this will not be possible unless we stop isolating entire communities and join together to take action.

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Kenya 2012: Invincible Children

Michael Mungai | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Kenya, Africa, Kony 2012, Documentary, Joseph Kony, Invisible Children, Children's Rights, Street Children, Impact News

With some striking similarities to the work of Invisible Children, my friends and I are also working on a film about marginalized children in Africa.

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Can Business Uphold Children's Rights?

David Mepham | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Children's Rights, Unicef, Corporate Social Responsibility, Csr, Human Rights Watch, Children's Rights and Business Principles, Impact News

Despite a plethora of international initiatives on corporate social responsibility, none has focused exclusively on the impact of business on children's rights.

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Counting On Us: Release of New Civil Rights Data Is the First Step in Helping Our Kids

Deborah J. Vagins | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Aclu, School Discipline, Arne Duncan, Department of Education, Corporal Punishment, Corporal-Punishment-Schools, Children's Rights, School Disciplinary Policies, Education News

Reliance on practices like suspensions, expulsions and arrests decrease academic achievement and increase the likelihood that students will be pushed out of school, oftentimes into the criminal justice system.

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The Rights of Adolescent Girls in the Real World: My Experience

Dora Alonzo Quijivix | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: National Children's Parliament Guatemala, Girl Up Campaign, Guatemala, Adolescent Girls, Adolescent Girl Activism, Guatemala Youth, Girl UP, Guatemala Children's Rights, Children's Rights, Women's Rights, Impact News

In order to protect the rights of girls and young women, we must find new ways of holding our government accountable to the wellbeing of children and adolescents in Guatemala.

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Nigeria: Child Lead Poisoning Crisis

Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Lead Poisoning, Children's Rights, Africa, Nigeria, Gold, Extractive Industries, Health, Video, World News

Thousands of children in northern Nigeria need immediate medical treatment and dozens of villages remain contaminated two years into the worst lead poisoning epidemic in modern history.

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Occupy Religion 2012

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street, Children's Rights, Occupy Faith, Protecting Children, Failures of Religion, Occupy Religion, Interfaith Dialogue, Religion News

The New Year is supposed to generate a bit of optimism, but in early 2012 we are not feeling very optimistic when it comes to organized religion. This may be a do-or-die moment for religion.

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Mali: Artisanal Mines Produce Gold With Child Labor

Human Rights Watch | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Children's Rights, Africa, Gold, Child Labor, Children's Health, Mali, Gold Mining, World News

Hazardous Work, Mercury Poisoning, and Disease (Bamako)– At least 20,000 children work in Malian artisanal gold mines under extremely harsh and...

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The "Grand" Finale: Ending Season 4 of Toddlers & Tiaras

Hilary Levey Friedman | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Reality TV, Child Beauty Pageants, Children's Rights, Toddlers & Tiaras, Culture News

I've been studying child beauty pageants for over a decade and I do believe that shows like Toddlers & Tiaras have gone too far. Such young pageant contestants should not be featured on television.

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A New Girls' And Women's Literacy Empowerment Movement

Pam Allyn | Posted 10.01.2011

My LitWorld team has just returned from a trip to work with the girls and women leading our Girls LitClub initiative in Kenya. Join me on this journey.

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Children, Violence and the First Amendment: Video Games in the Supreme Court

David Moshman | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Adolescents, Supreme Court, Violence, First Amendment, Children's Rights, Video Games, Free Speech, Technology News

Video games, noted the Court, resemble "the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them" in that they "communicate ideas -- and even social messages."

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What If There Were a Springtime for Children?

Heather Paul | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Education, Human Rights, Children, Heather Paul, SOS Children's Villages, Orphans, Non-Profits, Children's Rights, Family, Impact News

What if children of all ages rose up and marched in unison to their government capitals, demanding their rights -- human rights to a home, a family, education and a childhood?

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Philippine TV Show Canned After 6-Year-Old's 'Sexy' Dance

Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Social Welfare, Human Rights, Child Abuse, Willing Willie Dancing Boy, Willing Willie, Children's Rights, Willie Revillame, World News

The Philippines' most popular TV game show has been yanked from airwaves amidst public uproar over its host prodding a crying 6-year-old boy into mimi...

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Camreta/Alford v. Greene: Protecting Children and Our Own Civil Rights

Sheree Moratto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Camreta/Alford v. Greene, Children's Rights, Civil Rights, Politics News

When the United States Supreme Court hears arguments on the morning of March 1, 2011, it will be the first time that the court has heard a case concerning children's and families' rights in a child protection investigation in 21 years.

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All Kids Deserve to DREAM

Bruce Lesley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Children of Immigrants, Politics, Military Service, Higher Education, Children's Rights, Congressional Budget Office, American Dream, DREAM Act, Impact News

A vote for the DREAM Act is a vote for children -- a vote to provide each and every child in America with the opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

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Out of School

Ann Cotton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Poverty, Children's Rights, Girls Education, Africa, Impact News

Girls who do attend school are starting their lives on the right path. They are three times less likely to contract HIV/AIDS, they earn up to 25 percent more income, and they have smaller, healthier families.

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Academic Freedom in High School and Kindergarten

David Moshman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High School, Academic Freedom, Student Rights, Intellectual Freedom, Children's Rights, Texas State Board of Education, Kindergarten, Education News

Perhaps we can't run a kindergarten like a college, but we can provide students of all ages with a curriculum determined by teachers and other experts on academic grounds and encourage them to figure things out.

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Children's Rights at the Plaza

Elizabeth Nicholas | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Foster Children, The Plaza, Child Welfare, New-York-Society, Children's Rights, New York News

Last Tuesday night at the Plaza Hotel, an impressive array of advocates for the rights of children in foster care gathered to support Children's Right...

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China's One Child Policy in 2010

Michael Solis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China One Child Policy, Women's Rights, Chai Ling, Children's Rights, Involuntary Sterilization, Forced Abortion, All Girls Allowed, Video, World News

Just days before Liu Dan's due date in February 2009, workers from China's Population and Family Planning Commission, which regulates the nation's One Child Policy, abducted Liu from her home.

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Nigerian Children Accused Of Witchcraft By Parents (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Witchcraft, Child Abuse, Children's Rights, Witch, Witch Trials, Nigerian Children, Nigerian Child Witch, Nigeria, Wizard, Video, World News

In Nigeria, the fear of witchcraft is rooted in centuries of tradition. However, in the past decade, that deeply ingrained superstition has sparked a ...

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Watch: Veggies Gone Wild!!!

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Children's Rights, Children, Farm Labor, Food Politics, Agriculture, World News

By Jo Becker, advocacy director for the children's rights division of Human Rights Watch Hundreds of thousands of children are employed as farmwork...

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Recognizing the Human Rights of Immigrant Children

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Undocumented Immigrants, Human Rights, Immigrant, Children's Rights, Arizona Law, Children, Politics, Politics News

To put children at the center of our arguments about immigration is to appeal to something beyond cold reason. Children are symbols of our future, and how we treat, view, care and talk about them matters for the nation we are.

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New York Center for Children Offers Hope after Child Abuse

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Queen Silvia of Sweden, Upper East Side, Childhood Trauma, Kate Spade, John Hopkins Hospital, Child Protection, Societal Problem, New York City District Attorney, New York City Administration for Children?S Services, Jim Luce, Mathew Luce, Children's Rights, Pedophilia, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Global Citizens, New York City Police Department, Children?S Advocacy Center of Manhattan, Foster Children, Child Abuse, Dr. Katherine Teets Grimm, Christine Crowther, Orphans International Worldwide, Unicef, Substance Abuse, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Thought Leaders, New York Center for Children, Mount Sinai Sexual Assault - Violence Intervention Program, New York News

The next benefit for the New York Center for Children is Tuesday night, Feb. 2. Called "A Toast to The New York Center for Children," the travel auc...

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Mr. President, Protect the Rights of Children

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Juvenile Justice, Education Reform, Southern Poverty Law Center, Children's Rights, Children, Civil Rights, US Justice Department, Politics News

I'd like to remind the president of one area that often gets overlooked - the responsibility to protect the rights of our most vulnerable children.

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Join the World in Embracing Children's Rights

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unicef, Somalia, United Nations, United States, Hillary Clinton, War Zones, Children's Rights, Barack Obama, Convention on the Rights of the Child, World News

Only two countries in the world have failed to ratify The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Somalia and the United States, which drafted more of its provisions than any other government.

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