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 ...

Universal Children’s Day is observed on November 20 annually to promote the rights and the well-being of children globally. Every child has the right to be educated, protected, have their voice heard ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Association of Guardians Ad Litem says move is a ‘backward step’ and will undermine the constitutional rights of children ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. House Oversight Committee advanced several bills that would roll back bipartisan reforms designed to protect children in the justice system. The data shows that the children in our criminal ...