Child rights Stories

The decision was reached on Wednesday during a parliamentary sitting in Mogadishu, chaired by Speaker of the Lower House Sheikh Adan Mohamed Noor Mado...

Children aged 12 to 13 are presumed incapable unless it is proven that they understood the nature and wrongfulness of their actions.

Large numbers of students remain out of school because of mass displacement, limited teaching staff, lack of learning materials, and restricted access...

Children are often more affected by separation or divorce than the parents themselves. In her experience, many children may not have the words to expr...

2024 saw a record 41,370 grave violations against children,the highest number verified in nearly 30 years of monitoring/

According to IGAD, 25 per cent of all migrants in Africa are children, and the majority of these children come from the East African region.

Since the war erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their associated militias in April 2023, tens of...

The law, approved by the Malagasy parliament in early February, sanctions both chemical and surgical castration for individuals convicted of sexually...

Efforts are being made in the south of Madagascar to end a traditional but illegal practice in which girls are promised as a wife to older men, someti...