Well, it's all been a bit quiet from me lately, but spring is in the air and there's something really exciting happening in March! As many of you will know, South Africa is gearing up to host the FIFA World Cup 2010. Now, I don't...

I was flicking through a copy of the New Internationalist when I came across a 'country profile' of Sierra Leone. Amnesty's Demand Dignity campaign is active on the issue of maternal mortality in the west African country, home to 5.6...

In the wake of the massive humanitarian disaster in Haiti, Amnesty international have issued a statement reminding the relief effort to keep human rights at the core of aid delivery and redevelopment. The death toll has already reached...

The Amnesty children's human rights network have always beeninterest in fighting for the human rights of vulnerable streetchildren. Our children's rights advisor, David Maidment, founded The Railway Children , a charity that is...

How children respond to war and violence is interesting and worth our attention. Article 38 and 39 in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) deal with 'children in armed conflict'. Article 39 declares that: States Parties...

On 16 December the United Nations, the Nepalese Government and Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) signed a plan which hopes to release 3,000 child soldiers who served in the Maoist army during the country’s decade-long...

This is one of the most shocking thing I have seen in a long time: Reuters: Brazil needle victim recovers, outrage at cruelty This is an inhuman way to torture a 2 year-old . Please share this story and have a look at the 'witch...

It’s that time of year: nativity costumes, little angels playing Joseph and Mary, and (of course) ’tis also the season of giving and receiving. In my house my nearest and dearest invariably get books, and so I have some firm gift...

A little bit of light entertainment for you here, with this YouTube video filmed in a Danish school of children talking about children's rights. It's extremely touching and very funny. It was shown at the Amnesty International Children...

BBC Radio 4's Today Programme have published an audio slideshow about child slavery in Haiti, which you can see here . The report explains, with a series of photographs, how children in poverty come to be taken into slavery within the...

Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed atprotecting children, leaving the United States as the only countryoutside the pact, UNICEF said on Friday. The 20th of November 2009 was the 20th anniversary of the...

Just thought I'd share this – it is the January 2009 issue of the Institute for Development Studies Bulletin online and all content is free to view (great for those of us without access through university libraries, etc). I think it's...

Please sign this when you have a minute: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Realising-Rights The petition is run by our colleagues at the Consortium for Street Children and focuses on violence against street children, in particular the...

I was flicking through my copy of the Amnesty International Report 2009: The State of the World's Human Rights (it is very helpful; get your copy here ), and I started reading the entry for Israel and the OPT. If you have signed up to...

The term 'witch hunt' conjures up images of an almost fabled and obsolete medieval practice, but it has long been clear that in many parts of the world such superstition and ritual abuse is still commonplace. Some of you may have seen...

On November 16, Plan International are hosting a one-day conference focusing on the necessity on registering children at birth. Read more here: http://plan-international.org/birthregistration/the-campaign/count-ever…...

The USA is one of the more high-profile countries that still practices capital punishment. What is much less known, however, is their practice of sentencing minors to life without parole (LWOP). I haven't quite yet worked out how to...

A busy summer and were back into things for the autumn. Of course, a very special autumn it is, because in November we'll be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child! Hurrah! It is because of this...

As several members of the CHRN Committee find difficulty getting to meetings, especially those some distance from London, I thought it would be helpful if we used the blog system to input ideas and make comments. It allows other...

The UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Gulnara Shahinian, expressed deep concern last week over the highly exploitative nature of the 'restavek' system in Haiti, which she considered to be a modern form of slavery...