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Brazil

Brazil: Anger at Rio military police after boy dies in favela clashes

Hundreds of people protested in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, blaming Brazilian police for the death of a 10-year-old boy during clashes with locals in

05/04/2015

Belgium

Row in Belgium over child killer's ex-wife sharing home with former judge

There is controversy in Belgium over news the ex-wife of a serial child killer is to move into the home of a former judge

01/04/2015

Ukraine

Ukraine's war 'has harmed 1.7 million children'

Children in the Ukraine-controlled village of Chermalyk play war with sticks among the real war damage. To them, the so-called ‘bad guys’ are the

16/03/2015

France

France rapped by Europe human rights body on child smacking

France has been criticised by Europe’s leading human rights body for failing to impose a clear ban on slapping children. The Council of Europe in

04/03/2015

France

Council of Europe 'set to rebuke France' for failing to ban smacking

Europe's leading human rights watchdog is set to criticise France for its failure to explicitly ban smacking, according to press reports.

03/03/2015

United Kingdom

Turkish CCTV images show British girls on their way to join ISIL

Security camera footage emerges of three British schoolgirls believed to have joined ISIL

01/03/2015

South Sudan

Gunmen kidnap at least 89 boys in South Sudan

Gunmen in South Sudan have abducted at least 89 boys, some as young as 13, from their school in Upper Nile State. According to the UN they were taken

21/02/2015

France

2m euros damages for babies switched at birth in France

Two French families whose daughters were accidentally swapped at birth have won nearly 2 million euros in damages. The switch happened at a clinic in

10/02/2015

Iraq

UN report accuses ISIL of torturing and killing children in Iraq

The jihadists known as ISIL are abusing and killing children in Iraq in ways which amount to systematic war crimes. According to a report by the

05/02/2015

Sudan

First of more than 2,000 child soldiers freed in South Sudan

A militia in South Sudan releases the first of many child soldiers as part of peace deal

28/01/2015

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Nigeria: Boko Haram attacks have displaced one million

22/01/2015

Iraq

Bonus: Interview with Jeffrey Bates, Chief of Communications for UNICEF Iraq

26/12/2014

World News

Australian mother arrested after eight children stabbed to death

A mother in Australia has been arrested for murder after eight children were stabbed to death on Friday. The 37-year-old, who hasn’t been named, was

20/12/2014

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Hospital panic in aftermath of Pakistan school massacre

17/12/2014

India

Nobel prizewinners Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi: united for children's rights

By both being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, they became united by the in the same struggle for children’s rights: Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan

08/12/2014

Spain

Judge arrests three priests in Granada paedophile probe

25/11/2014

Turkey

Turkey: plastic bag campaign hopes to find missing children

19/11/2014

My Europe Series

Children in need: the new reality of international adoption

26/09/2014

United Kingdom

Police chief resigns over sex abuse scandal involving 1,400 children

17/09/2014

Gaza

Human rights group names the 521 children 'killed in Gaza'

28/08/2014