Tag: Children’s rights
children are most exposed to environmental damage, warns the Defender of Rights
How to protect children, the first victims of climate change? According to the UN, if the trend continues, eight times more children around the world will be exposed to extreme…
Due to a lack of specialized space, Kahil was deprived of school at the age of nine and was seriously disabled
In France, some parents are in great dismay. While around ten million students are in school, other children remain on the sidelines and struggle to find a place in an…
in France, a demonstration against violence against children
In France, 160,000 children are victims of sexual violence per year, 200 of them are victims of abuse every day, and a child is killed by their parents every five…
in Jabaliya, there is “no one to collect the bodies, devoured by stray dogs”
Nearly a year after the truce between Israel and Hamas, which allowed a week-long ceasefire and the release of around a hundred Israeli hostages, conflict mediators are working on a…
Childhoods in war territory, from 1914 to the present day
Historically, in Europe, children’s rights first focused on work, when the industrial revolution pushed their exploitation to a paroxysm. It expanded to education and intra-family relations at the end of…
Joe Biden’s historic apology for residential school abuse for Native Americans
US President Joe Biden officially apologized to Native Americans on Friday, October 25. For 150 years in the United States, children of indigenous peoples were taken from their families and…
Foreign minors placed in hotels and out of school: Child welfare in the North singled out
In France, child welfare in the Nord department is once again being singled out. Near Dunkirk, around sixty foreign minors were placed unaccompanied in an abandoned hotel. Without school, without…
A woman who kidnapped children in the DRC to have them adopted in Belgium sentenced
The Namur criminal court sentenced Belgian-Congolese Julienne Mpemba to ten years in prison on Thursday October 10 for the kidnapping of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and…
Haitian children trapped in gang violence and humanitarian situation
In Haiti, a wave of violence and a catastrophic humanitarian situation have forced more than 700,000 people, half of them children, to flee their homes. These young people looking for…
Child protection: “The situation is catastrophic”
Child protection professionals are mobilizing this Wednesday to denounce what they call the “unprecedented state of disrepair” of their sector. The number of children placed following a court decision continues…