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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is the most universally accepted human rights treaty in history. This Universal Children’s Day, the United Nations marks the 31st anniversary of ...

A U.N. human rights expert says that gang violence is spreading across Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission targeting criminals ...

Online conversations about children often suggest that adults shouldn’t have to endure them if they don’t want to. Scholars ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The United Nations' expert on human rights in Haiti said on Friday that the situation in the ...

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Migrant children kicked and headbutted at facilities in Canary Islands currently housing over 5,000 young people ...

A U.N. committee on Thursday accused Israel of "severe" breaches of a global treaty protecting children's rights, saying its ...

Israel has attacked 16 schools in Gaza in the past six weeks, killing hundreds of Palestinians, rights group Euro-Med Human ...

Human rights are a set of rules that support how all people can be treated equally and with respect. Everyone, everywhere in the world is entitled to human rights. We all have a responsibility to ...