The UN Human Rights Committee determined Monday that Sweden violated the rights of a child with severe disabilities by deporting him to Albania without ensuring access to essential medical care. The ...

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has approved a landmark First Nations child welfare deal between the federal government and First Nations in Ontario, partially ending a decades-long discrimination ...

The failure of state arms export regulations to prevent transfers of weapons to those with a clear record of human rights and ...

The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child has delivered a landmark ruling against Nigeria over widespread abuses of children accused of witchcraft, ordering the Federal ...

Human Rights Watch congratulates the newly elected and re-elected members of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights ...

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(Beirut) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is conducting a campaign to recruit children as young as 12 to volunteer to become “homeland defending combatants,” Human Rights Watch said ...

“Blocking releases based only on the child’s nationality is a clear violation of federal law and regulations that require ORR to release children to a suitable sponsor without unnecessary delay,” said ...

When people think about female genital mutilation/cutting, or FGM/C, they associate it with places like Africa or the Middle East. But FGM/C is happening here, in the United States, and shockingly, ...

We’ve made progress in many realms of civil rights over the past decades in the U.S. The rights of African Americans, women, gays and lesbians, and handicapped people have expanded, thanks in part to ...