Children under the age of criminal responsibility cannot be convicted and punished for their delinquent behaviour. However, the acts they commit require a reaction. Are the rights of children under 15 years of age sufficiently safeguarded?
Critics of the recent child protection law reform in Lithuania say it is anti-family, while human rights organisations say that the implementation has been mishandled by authorities.
Amsterdam city council wants child asylum seekers who have been living in the Netherlands for more than five years to be able to stay in the country, arguing it is now their home. The council called on Mayor Femke...
A children's rights expert says she is “deeply worried," about the state of children's rights in the Netherlands.
Some 160.000 children in the last grades of primary school went door to door over the past week and a half, selling as many postage stamps as possible. The Children's Stamp Fundraiser collected €9,7 million in total ...
A new report by a British internet watchdog foundation finds that over a third of all online links to child porn are hosted on servers in the Netherlands
The Court of Lecco, Northern Lombardy, has decided that children born to a married gay couple should be able to have the surname of its parents choosing. Indeed, a child born to two women who were married in Portugal...
Rights International Spain has carried out an investigation within the framework of a European project which has culminated in a report that points out serious deficiencies in the compliance with the Procedural Directives related to juveniles.
Dutch Minister for Education Jet Bussemaker has allocated 87 million euros over the next three years to address inequality in education. The money is intended to give children from parents with a lower level of...
421,000 children in the Netherlands are at risk of social exclusion, and children's rights organizations are sounding the alarm with four recommendations to help prevent kids in poor families from becoming disadvantaged.
