We’ve made progress in many realms of civil rights over the past decades in the U.S. The rights of African Americans, women, gays and lesbians, and handicapped people have expanded, thanks in part to ...

Pope Francis speaks to participants in a Feb. 3, 2025, International Summit on the Rights of the Child inside the Clementine Hall of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ...

A Georgia mother has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state seeking to end child support fees for parents whose children were sent to foster care. The lawsuit filed last week argues that state ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to inform the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’ report on the rights of the child and violations of human rights in armed ...

Pope Francis delivers his closing remarks at the world leaders’ summit on children’s rights at the Vatican Feb. 3, 2025, as former U.S. Vice President Al Gore listens. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) ...

Is a Washington law pitting child protection against parental rights? Some people tasked with caring for abused and neglected children believe it is, and say children are dying because of it. One of ...

Justice for Children in a Future Crimes Against Humanity Treaty" by Zama Neff, Janine Morna, Véronique Aubert and Zoé Bertrand was originally published on Just Security. A future Crimes Against ...

At issue are new “LGBTQ-inclusive” storybooks used for classroom reading for pre-kindergarten to 5th grade in Montgomery County, Md., a suburb of Washington where three justices reside. During an ...

Pope Francis and leaders from around the world are meeting at the Vatican this week to discuss the rights of children, including the smallest and most defenseless children — the unborn. The pontiff ...

In her celebrated book "Red Scarf Girl," author Ji-li Jiang recounts growing up during the Cultural Revolution in China. She and millions of others had to choose between obeying the country's ...

Swartling Peterson is a public health physician and professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Pai is a public health physician and professor at the McGill School of Population and ...