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The need for children to be protected from exposure to violence against animals has been officially adopted into the United Nations Convention on the Rights

GC26 adopts an approach that is child-centred and identifies several different rights in the Convention of the Rights of the Child that are indivisible and interdependent and which the full enjoyment thereof is dependent on a healthy environment.

Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — A young Samoan climate activist says the UN's new guidance on children's rights to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is "the first ste

A recently published UN report states that children have a right to a sustainable environment and urges states and businesses to take action.

A young Samoan climate activist says the UN's new guidance on children's rights to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is "the first step to global change". The UN Committee...

This submission addresses articles 3, 6, 24, 28, and 29 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and covers access to abortion and specific aspects of the right to education.

Health

For the first time, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has explicitly affirmed the children’s right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, issuing a comprehensive interpretation of Member States’ obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.This Convention, created in 1989 and ratified by 196 states, outlines universal children’s rights such as the right to life, survival and development, and the right to health. A General Comment provides l...

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued new guidance on Monday that calls for governments to take action to protect boys and girls in the face of the deepening climate crisis.

United Nations, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations Child Rights Committee on Monday published authoritative guidance on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change.