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May 18, 2020 Letter

Letter to European Commission re: Access to Secondary Education for Syrian Refugee Children

Syrian children attend class in a school in the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan, October 20, 2015. The school taught Syrian girls in the morning and boys in the afternoon, but lacked electricity, heating, and running water.

May 14, 2020 News Release

Detained Children Left Out of Covid-19 Response

Step Up Releases from Jails, Prisons

Teenagers stand inside a prison cell at a reform centre in Dohuk, Iraq, February 12, 2017.

May 13, 2020 Statement

Emergency Action Needed for Vulnerable Artisanal & Small-Scale Mining Communities & Supply Chains

An artisanal mine in the Western region of Ghana

May 12, 2020 Statement

Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Kuwait

87th Pre-Session

May 5, 2020 Commentary

Coronavirus Adds Urgency to Ending Egypt’s Detention and Torture of Children

An illustration showing a boy being forced to stand with his bare heels over a plank of nails

April 29, 2020 News Release

Saudi Arabia: Partial Criminal Justice Revisions

Death Penalty Ended for Some Child Offenders, Flogging for Certain Crimes

Ali al-Nimr was one of at least three Saudi men on death row for protest-related crimes committed when they were children.

April 24, 2020 Commentary

Millions of Children Threatened by Violence Risk Being Forgotten Amid Coronavirus Lockdowns

April 24, 2020 Commentary

Why Covid-19 Choices Are Critical for Children

A child washing hands with anti-bacterial soap as a preventive measure against COVID-19, at Sadarghat Launch Terminal, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 27, 2020.

April 24, 2020 Q & A

Tanzania: Q & A on Ban on Pregnant Girls and World Bank Education Loan

April 24, 2020 News Release

World Bank: Tanzania Loan Should Promote All Girls’ Education

New Q&A on Discrimination Against Pregnant Students, Young Mothers

April 23, 2020 Dispatches

EU Solidarity on Migrant Children in Greece Could Change Lives

Dutch Government Should Welcome Unaccompanied Children from Greek Islands

Migrant children board a plane for Luxembourg

April 22, 2020 Dispatches

Tell the Trump Administration to Protect Asylum Seekers

Covid-19 Rule Allowing Expulsions at US-Mexico Border Puts Many at Risk

A Honduran mother plays with her son as they wait in line to get a meal in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, August 30, 2019.

April 22, 2020 Letter

NGOs Urge Swedish Minister of Justice and Migration Morgan Johanson to Welcome Unaccompanied Children from Greece

April 22, 2020 News Release

France: Urgently Repatriate Sick Child from Northeast Syria

Bring Home Other French Children Trapped There

April 16, 2020 Interview

When Health Care Is Decimated By War: COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa

A man wearing a face mask rides in an almost empty bus in Cairo, Egypt, March 30, 2020.

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