This new UNICEF/UNFPA publication covers Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan and Yemen, provides key recommendations for strengthening child marriage prevention programming during COVID-19 response and recovery phases. Based on this publication, approximately 700,000 child brides each year in the MENA...

The Open Society’s Justice Initiative briefing paper outlines the plight of approximately a thousand European women and children are currently detained in makeshift detention camps in Northeast Syria, since the fall of ISIS in 2019. A transparent and human rights...

Under the auspices of the IBELONG Coalition on Every Child’s Right to a Nationality, UNICEF and UNHCR have jointly prepared this note which explores the issue of sex discrimination in birth registration. The note recalls the fundamental right of every...

This book focuses on the issue of how the global temporary migration of millions of parents as low-waged migrant workers impacts the rights of their children covered by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), especially their right...

While the pandemic ravages child protection system around the world, the impact on civil registries and vital systems, will not be left unscathed. Already, 166 million children are not registered and a further 237 million do not have a birth...

The bioethics law adopted on 29 June 2021, which should be promulgated during the summer, recognises for the first time for people born through donor conception, a right to know their personal origins. When the law enters into force, which...

On Friday 25 June, Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY), led the launch of the first child protection information dashboard for Cambodia, the Prakas on foster care and kinship care and the report on the Action Plan...

The UN Global Counterterrorism Strategy (GCTS), is currently undergoing its 7th review after being first adopted by the UNGA in 2006. In principle the GCTS is reviewed bi-annually and should reflect member States’ counterterrorism priorities. The Second Counter-Terrorism Week comprises...

As a result of the pandemic there are now 8 million children more involved in child labour, above the 160 million children at the beginning of 2020. 79 million children of the 160 million were in hazardous work directly endangering...

Last month, hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former Indian residential school in British Columbia were discovered by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. These government-funded residential schools had the objective of taking “Indigenous children away from their families,...