Tag Archives: Children’s rights

Today is Universal Children’s Day.  50 years ago today, on November 20th, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child.  20 years ago today, the General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights the Child. These declarations and conventions are aspirational, high reaching rhetoric and are considered normatively obligatory […]

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave an emotional apology on Sunday to the victims of a largely forgotten chapter of Western history. Addressing a crowd of about 1000 former child migrants, Rudd issued a national apology for the mistreatment they received from the government when they had been promised a new chance and a new […]