January 24, 2019 marks the first celebration of International Day of Education, which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly. In her message, Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, stressed that without undertaking bold political obligations in education, “countries will…
Theme: children’s rights
Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, September 18, 2018; 13.15-14.45; Room 2. Participants of the side event ‘CHILDREN IN EURASIA: LOOKING FOR THE REAL ALTERNATIVE TO IMMIGRATION DETENTION’ will discuss the efforts to humanize the system of children’s transit and possible…
A new Human Right report prepared by ADC Memorial about children’s migration between CIS countries
Migrant Children in CIS Countries: Lack of Adequate Legal Norms Regulating Cooperation Between the Countries Involved. The new report is dedicated to the situation of children-migrants within CIS countries. In the region, both international agreements and national migration laws mostly…
The report is dedicated to the situation of children-migrants within CIS countries. In the region, both international agreements and national migration laws mostly ignore the children as a group in need for special protective measures. Their return to the countries…
Turning on oneself
American society has finally paid attention to the cruel treatment of migrant children separated from their parents at the border with Mexico: children there are kept in isolated premises behind metal nets and they are not given legal assistance. US…
Following the consideration of Russia’s official state report on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, the UN Committee on the Rights…