The International Day of the Girl Child (IDG), celebrated annually on 11 October...The advocacy for the IDG must be understood within the br

Intergenerational equity is increasingly argued to be a child rights issue because climate change affects children in particular ways. In...

In this post, I want to introduce the main issues and claims made in my forthcoming monograph Childhood in Liberal Theory: Equality,...

The 7th December 2023 was a momentous day for children in Scotland, with Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) at Holyrood passing...

Isherwood & Ors v Welsh Ministers [2022] EWHC 3331 (Admin) – A new perspective on parental rights in Relationships and Sexuality...

Hi, my name is Jenny. I have been working for the last 18 years on the development and implementation of child, young person, and family...

By Dr Malvika Unnithan The minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility (ACR) forms the basis of an age-old yet ongoing debate in England and...

Can the UNCRC provide a framework to support scientific advancement? Data from clinical trials is essential in the development of...

(edited by Dr Naomi Lott, University of Oxford) To mark World Children’s Day, some of our members chose to shine a spotlight on some key...

Aidan Flegg (PhD researcher) University of Glasgow / University of Stirling / Scottish Human Rights Commission Embedding children’s...

Dr Ally Dunhill, Eurochild (Head of Advocacy) On 22 June 2022, the UK Government introduced the Bill of Rights Bill, new legislation to...

Emilia Symington (PhD Candidate in Children’s Rights and Religious Freedom, Queen’s University Belfast) The Church of Ireland has allowed...

...the disconnect between two areas relevant to child protection: school safeguarding and educating children about their human rights.

Grandparenting and Children's Rights Sheila Varadan (PhD Candidate in Child Rights and Medical Research Ethics, Leiden University) The...

Globally, children as a social group face unique challenges in accessing the benefits of high-quality paediatric research

Although there is longstanding evidence of young people identifying as non-cis for (at least) a century, there has been little public...

Rhian Croke, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law and member of the Observatory on the Human Rights of Children, Swansea University. I...

Today the Committee on the Rights of the Child has published its 25th General Comment, on 'Children's Rights in Relation to the Digital...

Do children’s rights advocates sometimes risk perpetuating the problems we're trying to solve? I think it is a safe assumption that most...

Masud, a 15 year old Afghani boy, reached Calais, after a traumatic journey across Europe from Afghanistan via Greece. His sister and...