United Nations, General Assembly, 69th session, Third Committee, item 64 of the agenda, statement by the ICRC, New York, 17 October 2014. The ICRC would first like to take this opportunity to welcome ...

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, who look after the Convention, have written down how children should be treated in the digital world. This shorter version was written by young people ...

At the international level. France has acceded to all international texts which protect and promote children’s rights, first and foremost the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (PDF ...

"The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child is extremely concerned at the killing of children and other civilians during the current conflict in the Middle East.

Today is World Children’s Day, marking 30 years since the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Over the past three decades, every country in the world – except ...

"The İstanbul Convention, along with many other human rights conventions, also takes into account the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child," says the statement. "In other words, it ...

We look at the rights of children as it's been 30 years since the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was created. World leaders got together and created a set of rules to protect ...

One of the rules says that all children should have the chance to grow, learn, play and develop in a safe and healthy way. Another rule is that no child under the age of 15 can join the army or be ...

Human Rights Watch writes in advance of the 79th pre-sessional working group of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and its review of Japan’s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of ...