GENEVA (8 May 2014) – A group of United Nations and African human rights experts on Thursday called on the Boko Haram armed group to immediately release the girls abducted in Borno State, Nigeria. The...

TEGUCIGALPA (25 April 2014) – “The Government of Honduras must urgently adopt measures to effectively protect children, without discrimination, from all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation,”...

GENEVA / TEGUCIGALPA (15 April 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Najat Maalla M’jid, will visit Honduras from 21 to 25...

GENEVA (14 April 2014) – United Nations child rights experts have hailed a new treaty that allows children to complain directly to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child about alleged violations...

International Day to End Impunity, Saturday 23 November GENEVA (22 November 2013) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts* today called on the UN to adopt a more central role in...

Prioritise and fund child protection in post-2015 development agenda, UN child rights experts urge GENEVA / NEW YORK (19 November 2013) – Governments should make child protection from violence a...