The United Nations (UN) Headquarters Secretariat building in New York City The United Nations (often called the UN) is an organisation that brings countries from all around the world together to ...

On the same day in 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is the most universally accepted human rights ...

There is a “crucial need” to review the law to ensure children’s voices are better heard during family separation, academics ...

A social experiment filmed in Cornwall aims to raise awareness of the rights of children. Cornwall Council's Headstart Kernow ...

Every child has the right to be heard, protected, and supported to grow. But how can local governments make sure these rights are respected every day, in every barangay, and in every policy? This was ...

Digital media are no longer luxuries, but are rapidly becoming essentials of modern existence – and this applies increasingly in the global South as well as the global North. Faced with the challenge ...

Children from P1 to 7 have formed a group called the ‘Rights Ravens’ to promote children’s rights and the UNCRC in the school ...

There must be a compassionate, caring, decision-making culture focused on children and those they trust” (The Promise) The Promise asserts that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ...

The Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) is given to schools that have fully embedded the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in their everyday practice.