Children are the most vulnerable when conflict or disaster causes the collapse of essential services such as healthcare and unless the international community takes urgent action to protect... Read more
The Human Rights Council concluded its thirty-seventh regular session on 23 March 2018, during which it addressed a wide range of human rights issues with numerous human rights experts, work... Read more
Most of us remember the 1982 Hyde Park bombing by the IRA: four lives were lost and it became a symbol of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. But the shock and trauma for victims lasted long b... Read more
The Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism (ADVT) discussed a number of issues concerning children impacted by terrorism in a side event dubbed “Access to Justice as a Strategy for C... Read more
The challenges we face today are sobering. We regularly see the heart-breaking results of widespread violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. In every... Read more
The United Nations on Sunday kicked off in Paris, France, a year-long campaign to honor the foundational human rights document, which next year marks its 70th anniversary. Since the proclama... Read more
NEW YORK, 28 December 2017 – Children in conflict zones around the world have come under attack at a shocking scale throughout the year, UNICEF warned today, with parties to conflicts blatan... Read more
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany has decided to stop exporting arms to Saudi Arabia, the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag said on Sunday, citing government sources as saying the kingdom was... Read more
Children in Yemen could not have a worse year than 2017, according to a senior official from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). “2017 was a horrible year for the children of Yemen,” UNICEF Rep... Read more
Surviving victims can help shape effective strategies to counter terrorism, a senior United Nations counter-terrorism official said on Thursday, pledging to provide practical, pragmatic and... Read more