Children's Rights

A report from the Philippines revealing the latest child abuse figures makes devastating reading, discovers Iris Gonzales.…

Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is working to heal a century of trauma caused by a policy of assimilation which saw thousands of indigenous children sent to boarding schools to be indoctrinated in white culture.…

Whenever we see something wrong, whenever we see an injustice, we should speak out…

In strictly segregated Yemeni society, child sexual abuse is kept well-hidden…

Alasdair Soussi talks to Gary Foxcroft, whose organization, Stepping Stones Nigeria, is helping some of the country’s most vulnerable children.…

Nigeria must reconsider laws which allow the marrying off of minors with impunity.…

Children of safai karmacharis (people engaged in sanitation work) in Gujarat are being forced by teachers to clean toilets and mop floors in school…

Using financial inducements to stop circumcisions.…

Young girls in Sierra Leone are being punished for receiving educational opportunities.…

Bob Chaundy visits Ghana’s gold-mining region, where a new project is giving child labourers hope of a better future.…