Trailblazer Initiative Nigeria, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Oyo State Government, on Wednesday, empowered over 3,900 adolescent girls to lead the campaign for the ...

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they ...

Traditional leaders have been called upon to champion the protection of women’s rights and eliminate harmful cultural practices ...

Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Colorado, and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are under investigation.

The theme for this year’s event - “Planning and Budgeting for Children’s Rights: Progress Since 2010,’ highlighted the importance of increased investment, accountability, and inclusion in national ...

Imo State has the highest prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the Southeast region, with 38% of wome n aged 15-49 years affected. Alarmingly, 9.7% of girls aged 0-14 years have also ...

Despite a growing global push to ban a practice widely seen as abhorrent, the number of victims of female genital mutilation has grown by 15 percent since 2016 to an estimated 230 million ...

Despite a growing global push to ban a practice widely seen as abhorrent, the number of victims of female genital mutilation has grown by 15 percent since 2016 to an estimated 230 million ...

Unicef calculates the rate of decline would need to be 27 times faster to eliminate this abuse by 2030. Understanding the trends is the starting point for ending female genital mutilation. Some of ...

Some 144 million women and girls have been through female genital mutilation in Africa alone, followed by Asia and the Middle East with 80 million and 6 million respectively, the report said.