Rights of the Child News 

News from children's charities and research about child rights.  

Despite the near universal ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, millions of children around the world are still denied their human rights.
 

Unstable Foster care puts children at risk

03/09/2012 - Concern is growing that the almost 400 children in the care of the state in Australia have been in 10 or more foster care facilities, and that this stress puts vulnerable children at increased risk.

Gruesome Murders Claim Children’s Lives

31/08/2012 – Two Afghan children—one teen boy and a young girl—were beheaded this week in Afghanistan in two horrific, unrelated incidents.

The War over Male Circumcision

28/08/2012 – A new view from American paediatricians looks favourably at male circumcision, but says the procedure should be the choice of the parents. Critics battling against circumcision call the practice a violation of children’s rights.

Three South African Children Murdered Daily

25/08/2012 – South African researchers have found that violence against children remains a continual challenge, with three children being murdered each day.

Advocates call for Child Rights to be guaranteed in Egypt's Constitution

21/08/2012 - Activists state that the rights of 30 million children need to be guaranteed under Egypt's next constitution, to be raised above family law.
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