A child protection law is failing the learners it was designed to safeguard.
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Adults don’t always listen to or understand children when they are abused.
Cities have the authority and duty to consider children’s rights as part of climate change responses.
One study found 80% of darknet traffic on Tor went to sites hosting unmoderated porn and child sex abuse material.
In our increasingly datafied world, there is a clear need to develop and disseminate responsible approaches for handling data for and about children.
Children’s right to health is paramount: here’s what needs to be done to build a child-centred health care system.
Laws in Mauritius allow minors to marry while some cultures on the island are tolerant of child marriage.
Former tennis star Jelena Dokic’s story of disturbing abuse suffered at the hands of her father raises alarm bells about children in elite sports.
A new mentorship program uses fiction to teach children’s rights, and to help kids understand and prevent bullying.
New reports show a widespread lack of care for the cultural needs of many of the 19,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and out-of-home care.
Same-sex marriage is about state recognition of the union between two people and is a political issue. Religious belief can apply in a church and in individual decisions, but not to a secular state.
Most of the world’s ‘orphans’ are not orphans at all and many are caught up in a global trade in meeting demand for adoption. Making intercountry adoption easier adds to the risks for these children.
Breastfeeding has again been frothing up debate after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) introduced a clause to its Child Rights law that makes it mandatory to breastfeed children for the first two years of…
For the first time, children will soon be able to bring complaints of human rights violations to the United Nations. Although the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child has been in operation since…
First case of voluntary euthanasia for a child has taken place. But there are fundamental issues with this procedure.
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Programme manager of the Master's in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
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Associate professor, First Year College, Victoria University
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Associate Research Professor, Adelaide University
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Director, Arney Chong Consulting and Positive Futures Research, Adelaide University
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Director Bachelor Social Work Program, School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University
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Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, University of Oxford
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Professor, Chair of Child Protection, Director, Australian Centre Child Protection, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations, The University of Western Australia
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Formerly a lecturer in genetics, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Extraordinary Research Fellow: South African Research Chair in Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability, Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Communication and Education Specialist at the Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town