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December 1, 2017 Commentary

Aid Workers Under Pressure in Calais

Migrants in Calais gather in the rain for a clothing distribution in an industrial zone on the outskirts of Calais, France. © Futuro Berg/Help Refugees, October 2017

November 30, 2017 Dispatches

Iran’s Child Soldiers in Syria

No Excuse for Sending a 13-Year-Old to War

A fighter stands amidst the ruins of buildings near the Clock Square in Raqqa, Syria October 18, 2017. Picture taken October 18, 2017.

November 29, 2017 Commentary

What the EU Can Learn From the AU About Protecting Children in War

Seleka MPC fighters at a roadblock in Bojomo, Ouham province, with a desk they removed from the local school.

November 27, 2017 Dispatches

War is Driving Girls Out of School

Governments Need to Better Protect Girl Students from Attack

November 22, 2017 Dispatches

Tanzania is Not ‘Doing Well’ on Violence in Schools

Urgently End Corporal Punishment Against Children

November 21, 2017 Dispatches

US Officials Call Out Tillerson on Child Soldiers

Rare ‘Dissent Memo’ Says Secretary of State Contravened US Law

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson holds a press briefing at the State Department in Washington, U.S., August 22, 2017.

November 20, 2017 Commentary

The role of civil society in accountability systems: A human rights perspective

More than 120 Form II students prepare to sit their mock exams in a secondary school in Mwanza, northwestern Tanzania.

November 19, 2017 Dispatches

‘Shocking’ Detention of Australia’s Aboriginal Children

Royal Commission Report Needs Swift Action

A still from the Australian Broadcasting Company’s program “Four Corners,” showing 17-year-old Dylan Voller strapped into a mechanical restraint chair on March 2015 in the Northern Territory.

November 17, 2017 Commentary

Girls in Afghanistan—and Everywhere Else—Need Toilets

November 17, 2017 Dispatches

Russian Government Takes Children from Foster Mother Because of Breast Surgery

Discriminatory Assumptions Land Children in Orphanage

Two boys who were under the care of foster parent Yulia Savinovskikh until August 2017.

November 15, 2017 Dispatches

Tobacco Companies Commit to Protect Child Workers Worldwide

Implementation of Important Policy Commitment Will be Key

November 15, 2017 Commentary

15 Years After Forces Overthrew Taliban, Afghanistan Failing Its Girls

November 14, 2017 Statement

Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning Japan

79th pre-sessional working group

November 14, 2017 Commentary

US Military Aid to Israel – from Another Perspective