Tag: Children’s rights
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…
In France, a vaccine and a treatment to protect babies against bronchiolitis
The campaign to immunize infants born this year against bronchiolitis has started in France, in preparation for the winter season. This is the second of its kind. The main preventive…
Malaysia rocked by child abuse scandal with over 400 victims
Twenty foster homes raided, 170 arrests, more than 400 victims… A resounding child abuse scandal is shaking Malaysia, with physical, psychological and sexual violence inflicted on children aged 1 to…
Documents reveal how Abbé Pierre silenced those who wanted to denounce him
After 17 new accusations of sexual assault against Abbé Pierre were revealed last week, letters from the prelate reinforce the words of the alleged victims. An article published Monday, September…
China ends adoption of children by foreign couples
Since 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic, China had already largely suspended adoptions, to the great displeasure of hundreds of waiting couples. Very few babies have been able to find a…