This article has been adapted from a piece originally published in Jill Filipovic’s newsletter. You can subscribe here. A new Human Rights Watch report paints a damning portrait of children’s rights ...

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 ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of the Child as it drafts General Comment No. 27 on children’s rights to access to justice and ...

Our Children Youth and Families Department is responsible for the most vulnerable children in our state. But the department’s work goes largely unchecked. So, in 2021 when CYFD opened a new Office of ...

The story has been updated to clarify that the total number of children and youth in the child welfare system. Many come under supervision of their county Department of Children and Family Services ...

Parenting and children are so important that in 1959, the United Nations General Assembly designated November 20th as an annual celebration of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the ...

World Children's Day is a weighty milestone as Nov. 20 commemorates the United Nations adoption of a legal framework in 1989 ...