Children's right

Tech News

Irish watchdog to prioritise child safety online in 2025

The Digital Services Act regulator is involved in the drafting of EU guidelines on child safety – which are expected this year.

25/04/2025

Tech News

Bluesky partners with charity to curb online child sexual abuse

The social media platform will have access to a new range of tools to detect harmful material.

24/02/2025

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Rio de Janeiro's missing children

The NGO Rio de Paz organised a demonstration on Copacabana beach on Wednesday to demand answers from the government about the violent deaths of children in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

19/12/2024

Europe News

Taken away and brainwashed: How Moscow ‘Russifies’ Ukrainian children

The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab released a new report on Russia's coerced adoption of Ukrainian children. According to it, Moscow launched the programme together with its all-out invasion, pointing to crimes against humanity.

05/12/2024

Green News

One in 8 children significantly impacted by extreme weather events

400 million children have been affected by school closures due to extreme weather events since 2022.

07/11/2024

World News

Euroviews. A century of fighting for children's rights can't be lost to conflict

Children worldwide are facing hunger, poverty, inequality, and discrimination. We must make sure the next 100 years bring a brighter reality for them, Save the Children CEO Inger Ashing writes.

26/09/2024

Tech News

Exclusive: EU to give Big Tech DSA guidelines on protection of minors

The Commission has begun several investigations into child protection online.

17/06/2024

Tech News

AI is used to create child sexual abuse content, UK charity warns

There have been a rising number of reports about AI-generated child sex abuse material, according to a UK charity.

19/02/2024

Europe News

MEPs call for child sexual abuse crackdown without ‘mass surveillance’

The European Parliament adopted Tuesday its draft position on plans to crack down on child sexual abuse online, calling for the new EU rules to avoid "mass surveillance" or "scanning" of the internet.

14/11/2023

Europe Decoded

Planned EU laws on child sexual abuse have sparked a privacy row. Why?

Some have argued the proposed EU law could usher in mass surveillance in the bloc through the scanning of all communications, including encrypted messages.

19/10/2023

Europe News

EU victims of child sexual abuse face ‘postcode lottery’ of injustice

Many European countries are failing to deliver justice to survivors of child sexual abuse, according to a report released on Thursday.

20/07/2023

World News

Life on the margins: The fate of Ukraine's forcibly deported children

In the first instalment of this two-part series, Euronews examines NGO Save Ukraine's efforts to locate and retrieve Ukrainian minors forcibly deported to Russia while the war rages on.

07/06/2023

World News

The child victims of Russia's war in Ukraine

NGO Save the Children says there is no aspect of Ukrainian children's lives that has not been affected since the full-scale invasion began in February 2022.

26/05/2023

World News

Euroviews. The number of children without child benefits is simply inexcusable

Today, three-quarters of the world’s children — 1.77 billion — lack access to critical social protection, Natalia Winder-Rossi and Shahra Razavi write.

30/03/2023

Culture news

Oscar-nominee Florian Teichtmeister facing child pornography charges

In a statement, the team behind the film "Corsage", dedicated to the Empress of Sisi, said they were shocked by the revelations concerning the man who plays the Emperor Franz Joseph.

15/01/2023

The Dialogue

Football’s World Cup of Hope

In partnership with Media City

As the FIFA World Cup descends on Qatar, The Dialogue looks at another World Cup tournament taking place, The Street Child World Cup.

27/11/2022

Ukraine

'I just don't want to be bombed': How war is affecting Ukrainian kids

Beyond the mental health toll, stress like that imposed on children by Russia's invasion of Ukraine can have a permanent impact on the body and children's physical development, a paediatrician told Euronews.

23/05/2022

Scenes

Meet the Nepali teenagers raising awareness of human trafficking

In partnership with Media City

"If I would have been trafficked, I have no clue how my life would be now. I still fear when I think of what happened. Where would I be now?"

07/03/2022

Scenes

The alternative schools offering new horizons to children in Malaysia

In partnership with Media City

"I want all the children without documents and without education to be given a chance to go to school."

28/02/2022

World News

Euroviews. We must protect children on Europe’s borders | View

To mark International Migrants Day on December 18, Save the Children Europe director Anita Bay Bundegaard reflects on Europe’s need to uphold its core values and make sure all children stranded on the borders with Europe are safe.

17/12/2021