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Tom Parker (Amnesty USA) is currently at Guantánamo to observe the military commissions proceedings against detainee Omar Khadr, who was only 16 when first detained there. His blog details interrogation techniques used on Omar Khadr...

The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) reports that parliamentarians from all over Africa are pushing for a continent-wide ban on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and are calling on the UN to pass a General...

Well, it’s been a while since the last post, but what a fitting day – the day of the General Election – to write about Amnesty UK’s AGM, held at Warwick University in early April. I started writing this children’s human rights blog...

From our friends at Casa Allianza Nicaragua, who led a team to the first ever Deloitte Street Children World Cup : PLEASE HELP: STREET KIDS ROUNDED UP BY POLICE IN SOUTHAFRICA I’m sure you will have read our recent reports about the...

Committee on the Rights of the Child. State reports from Argentina, Belgium, FYR Macedonia, Grenada, Guatemala, Japan, Nigeria and Tunisia will be reviewed at the meeting of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, 54th session (25...

Hi all, Here are some useful child rights links, from our good friend in Health Rights at the IS. Thanks Jim! Newsletters . This World Vision newsletter has a number of items on children that you might find of interest. http://links...

East End Film Festival: Lonely Pack + shorts Date: Sun 25 April 2010 Eleven-year-old Sonu lives on the streets of Katmandu, part of a boisterous pack of street children fighting to survive in the chaotic capital of Nepal. Always on the...

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...