Topic: Children’s rights
Ukraine-Russia war: Putin citizenship decree violates children’s rights, Ukraine says
January 8, 2024 · By War in Ukraine for www.bbc.com
Ukraine-Russia war: Putin citizenship decree violates children’s rights, Ukraine says Ukraine has condemned a decree signed by President Putin making it possible to confer Russian citizenship on Ukrainian children moved to Russia. Last March, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Putin over Russia’s policy of forced child deportations. The Ukrainian foreign […]
Read More...US States Fail to Protect Children’s Rights
September 29, 2022 · By Human Rights Watch for www.hrw.org
US States Fail to Protect Children’s Rights (New York) – United States state laws overwhelmingly fail to meet international child rights standards, with the vast majority failing to protect children from child marriage, hazardous child labor, extreme prison sentences, and violent treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch gave 20 states a failing […]
Read More...Putting children at the centre – Council of Europe and EU synergies in protecting children’s rights
September 28, 2022 · By Council of Europe for www.coe.int
Putting children at the centre – Council of Europe and EU synergies in protecting children’s rights The Council of Europe’s Strategy for the Rights of the Child 2022-2027 (the Rome Strategy) and the EU Strategy for the Rights of the Child share a common vision and objectives, focusing on the participation of children, integrated systems […]
Read More...For this doctor, upholding children’s rights is nation-building
September 13, 2022 · By Kathleen de Villa - Reporter for newsinfo.inquirer.net
For this doctor, upholding children’s rights is nation-building MANILA, Philippines — Back in the 1980s, Bernadette Madrid was a resident pediatrician in her twenties at the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) when she encountered a case that opened her eyes to a reality that was, at first, hard for her to accept. “When I was […]
Read More...US States Fail to Protect Children’s Rights
September 13, 2022 · By Human Rights Watch for www.hrw.org
US States Fail to Protect Children’s Rights (New York) – United States state laws overwhelmingly fail to meet international child rights standards, with the vast majority failing to protect children from child marriage, hazardous child labor, extreme prison sentences, and violent treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch gave 20 states a failing […]
Read More...The Preda Philosophy and Methods of Empowering Youth
March 5, 2015 ·
The Preda philosophy and methods of empowering youth and developing the positive potential and value of youth is based on the recognition of the goodness in every human person. Children are born innocent and it is only as they grow up that they are corrupted by the adult world and imitate and learn from those […]
Read More...The Love That Replaces Violence and Abuse
February 15, 2015 ·
Fr. Shay Cullen February 14, 2015 Working for peace in the world is a thankless task. Peace is elusive, as violence seems to grow despite all the great work of so many peacemakers. The terrible violence with unbridled savagery that we see today on our television screens shows humans descending to the lowest depths of horror. […]
Read More...Pope Denounces “Scandalous Inequalities” in the Philippines
January 25, 2015 ·
Pope denounces “Scandalous inequalities”in The Philippines Fr.Shay Cullen With the wind blowing around the pope and rain falling as a tropical typhoon again approached Tacloban Pope Francis is speaking without a written speech in a homily from the heart and reminding all of us that Jesus of Nazareth has endured all the human trials and […]
Read More...Pope Francis must speak on children’s rights
January 25, 2015 ·
Pope Francis must speak on children’s rights.Fr.Shay Cullen Pope Francis in his New years message gone beyond pious platitudes and spoken out on the root causes of human trafficking and slavery and call on all people of good will to be part of the solution. There has to be many more people acting against this […]
Read More...Saving and healing the jailed children of poverty
October 31, 2014 ·
October 31, 2014 by Father Shay Cullen Ricardo, 13, was squatting at the corner of an overcrowded cell, his head was resting on his knees and his hands covered his head. He was hiding his child-like face. It was a defensive posture for self-protection. He was a youth prisoner without being charged and with no […]
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