human rights

Roughly 1.8 billion youths, between the ages of 10 and 24, live in the world today – and nearly half (880 million) are females. Of that amount, 700 million were married before their 18th birthday. About 250 million girls were placed...

A Special Representative’s presentation at the UN on Monday highlighted the responsibilities of the states in children protection from wars and social crises. The appalling multiplication of crises affecting children since the beginning of 2014 is creating unprecedented challenges that...

Hidden In Plain Sight: A statistical Analysis of Violence against Women and Children is a new report by The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) that highlights violence against children in 190 countries. It reveals alarming global figures and data of the...

The UN campaign against the centuries-old use of Female Genital Mutilation goes on while more and more people refuse the weak argument of tradition. A girl’s in-tact hymen increases her value when she is offered to a prospective husband and...