Fair Play for Children News — Children in the World & Society
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Climate Change: Save The Children Launches New Campaign To Protect Children
Armenian VOMA terrorist organization calling children to mine-laying trainings (PHOTO)
The Guardian on Twitter: “Home Office had murals for children removed at second asylum centre
Florida seeing spike in child labour as Republican states across the country push to remove barriers
“Children are agents of change” | OHCHR
new research reveals ongoing violence and abuse of Palestinian children detained by Israeli military
14th July 2023
Wisconsin teen dies in sawmill accident in one of 14 states looking to roll back child labour laws
11th July 2023
SPECIAL REPORT
Fair Play for Children reminds Ministers and MPs of the obligations the UK has to all children, including lone child migrant asylum seekers following the disgraceful actions of the Immigration Minister. This is the letter sent all MPs
9th July 2023
“Robert Jenrick reportedly ordered the removal of the murals at the centre in Kent, which depicted characters such as Baloo from The Jungle Book and Mickey Mouse, because they were thought to be too welcoming.” (SKY News Report.
“The i reported that Mr Jenrick also ordered colourful welcome signs to be removed as he wanted to make clear the centre was a “law enforcement environment” and “not a welcome centre”.”
Commenting, Jan Cosgrove, National Secretary of Fair Play for Children, which campaigns for the Child’s Right to Play as set out in the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, to which the UK is signatory: “This egregious example of current political thinking in the UK Government goes completely against the first principle of the Convention, that in all matters relating to a child, its welfare is a paramount issue. Children who are traumatised should not be subjected to such inhumane dictat. No matter what the vote-seeking attraction anyone thinks this might have, such an outrageous example of lack of compassion should be condemned. Such children need their rights protected not abused. Perhaps the Government might care to send a Minister to explain to the children ….”
Slavery, child labour persists one year after G7 commitment in Elmau, Germany
GambleAware draws links between early exposure and later life problems
Ambitious Efforts to Reform New York’s Juvenile Justice System Fail in the Legislature
5th July 2023
Strengthening Parents’ Rights: New York City Child Welfare Agency Says Not So Fast
UNICEF receives unprecedented backing from the United States
3rd July 2023
Children’s Sub-Commission of the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity, and Opportunity (CWCSEO)
Urgent reforms needed to protect women and children from violence in custody battles: UN expert
Monica Bedi On Child Labour: It Is Really Heartbreaking For Me When I See This Happening And I Feel So Helpless
DSWD seeks cross sectoral collab on children’s rights in ASEAN
26th June 2023
The Supreme Court Kept Children’s and Tribal Rights Top of Mind
21st June 2023
Counting the costs: Child labour in the Global South
18th June 2023
What is the Child Friendly Cities Initiative?
Discover this unique network
www.childfriendlycities.org
Council calls for a kinder, more inclusive internet where adults and children are safe
“This appeal raises important learning points concerning the correct approach to sentencing children and young people.”
13th June 2023
WHAT IF…CHILDREN LED THE FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS?
It’s time adults stopped trying to mould kids into obedient neoliberal subjects, argues Matt Broomfield
https://newint.org/features/2023/04/03/what-if-children-led-fight-their-rights
Toolkit: Ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communication Procedure — how children can make complaints direct to the UN
Imo: Police arrest landlord, others over abduction of four children — The Guardian Nigeria
UNICEF deeply shocked by the reported deaths of more than 20 children in Lower Shabelle region of Somalia following the detonation of a discarded explosive device
8th June 2023
MPs urge government to outlaw child labour
Belize newest country to join Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour
Jersey’s Children First
4th June 2023
31st May 2023
The change we desire is achievable, Nigerian children task government
Experts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Commend Türkiye’s Free Child … — OHCHR
Children’s Day: Rights of Children Still Violated in Nigeria — Development Diaries
Children’s Day: How Elizabethan Humanitarian Life is Rewriting History
Ann Skelton a champion for children’s rights leads UN committee on rights of the child
