In 2004 the UN CRC Committee asked for Guidelies on state alternative care for children without parental care. These have been under drafting for a long time and have now been completed – 172 paragraphs stressing the state's...

Really good to see this – http://www.newstatesman.com/subjects/no-place-for-children – commended by the Amnesty media awards! See the rest of the awards here: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=18227 Another example of...

I've just noticed that if you download the Amnesty toolbar (which is really easy and takes a couple of seconds), there is a drop-down menu that says 'Amnesty news', from which you can select 'Children's human rights', taking you to a...

PIlar from the Spanish section has sent us the following. A great resource for Spanish-speaking children's rights activists! "I would like to share with you a new web that the Team working on Education on Human Rights has put together...

This year at the AGM (as you may well already know), the UK Section passed a resolution calling for the UK delegation to this year's ICM in Turkey to urge the international movement to give priority to children's rights in the 2011...

On the eve of Albania’s Nationals Orphan’s Day on the 20th of May, Amnesty International called upon the government due to be elected in on the end of June to honour the country’s promises to improve provisions for its orphans. The...

Need an excuse to get friendly with a famous number 14 footballer? Have a classroom full of fourteen year-olds who might be interested? Here's some info from the IS on the Patrick Okoroafor campaign. On 29 May 2009 Patrick Okoroafor...

The 2009 AIUK AGM passed unanimously a resolution calling for the UK delegation to this year's ICM in Turkey to urge the international movement to give priority to children's rights in the 2011-2016 Integrated Strategic Plan. It also...

I am most thankful that I can start writing away on this brand new blog about something so positive! 'Tis the huge success for children's rights at the Amnesty Conference and AGM in Swansea this weekend just gone. The resolution...

After the runaway success of Slumdog Millionaire at the 2009 Academy Awards, the children’s rights issues presented by the film are more exposed than ever. We asked the Railway Children, a charity dedicated to helping street children...

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is 20 years old this year. Its aims follow from the assertion within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that childhood should be afforded special care and assistance by international...