Queen Rania of Jordan opened the summit, recalling that the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ...

Queen Rania of Jordan opened the summit, recalling that the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified human rights convention in history but is hardly enforced on an ...

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah called for the universal and unconditional application of children’s rights, urging the world to reject "a status quo that deems some children’s suffering ...

The UNCRC consists of 54 articles that set out children’s rights and how governments should work together to make them available to all children. Under the terms of the convention, governments are ...

Sharia law, which influences much of Iraq’s legal system, permits child marriage under certain conditions, often tied to the ...

The pope highlighted the plight of children living in "limbo" because they were not registered at birth and of "undocumented" children at the border of the United States, "those first victims of that ...

The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special meeting to discuss the situation in the eastern Congo city of Goma after it ...

United Nations International ... violations against children in armed conflict, highlighted issues concerning the protection of children based upon international human rights law and international ...