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 ...

A survivor’s story reveals how abuse, family rejection, school discipline and systemic neglect can push vulnerable girls into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a child sexual abuse scandal breaks, the public response is predictable: shock, outrage, promises of reform. But in the ...

Does your community care about children? This deceptively simple question carries profound moral, social, and civic weight. Across the United States, children are too often treated not as developing ...

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 ...

Kansas created an evidence-based fund to help minors avoid the criminal justice system. With some community groups struggling to access the money, lawmakers are looking to make more changes. Steve ...

A day after a 10-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly shooting and killing an infant girl in the city’s Baden neighborhood, juvenile authorities filed a petition alleging first-degree murder. The ...

Walk into any custodial youth justice facility in the UK – from young offender’s institutions to secure training centres and children’s homes – and you’ll be met with an unexpected reality: the ...