United Nations backs children's rights to battle climate change https://politicaliq.com/2023/08/28/united-nations-backs-childrens-rights-to-battle-climate-change/ #UnitedNations #ClimateAction #children #ChildrensRights #environment #politicaliq #news #politics

Children reaching UK in small boats sent to jail for adult sex offenders
Human rights group finds growing number of cases of minors held among prisoners
Vulnerable children who arrive in Britain by small boat are being placed in an adult prison that holds significant numbers of sex offenders.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/27/children-reaching-uk-in-small-boats-sent-to-jail-for-adult-sex-offenders

#refugees #ChildrensRights #children #prison #HumanitarianCrisis

Keeping kids in watch houses: why the Queensland government could change the law to suit itself https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/25/keeping-kids-in-watch-houses-why-the-queensland-government-could-change-the-law-to-suit-itself #auslaw #auspol #qldpol #humanrights #childrensrights #ruleoflaw

The National Children's Commissioner Anne Hollonds has expressed alarm at the Queensland Government rushing through legislation to allow children to be detained indefinitely in adult detention facilities, in a further contravention of the Queensland Human Rights Act.

Commissioner Hollonds said: “This latest action by the Queensland Government is not based on evidence and will not keep the community safer.

“Under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a child should only be detained as a last resort, and for the shortest appropriate period of time. They must also be segregated from all detained adults. Queensland’s Human Rights Act specifies that an accused child who is detained, or a child detained without charge, must be segregated from all detained adults.

“Police watch houses are not appropriate for children. The police officers are not trained to care for children, and there is no education or rehabilitation provided. There is no access to fresh air or exercise, and many cells have no window for natural light. Children as young as 10 years of age are being detained for many weeks in these shocking conditions."

https://humanrights.gov.au/about/news/media-releases/national-childrens-commissioner-slams-shocking-new-qld-youth-justice-laws #humanrights #childrensrights #Queensland #detention #qldpol #auslaw

I like to explain to children what I'm doing with and to them.

"Now we're putting on sunscreen. I know, you hate it. But if we don't do this, it'll hurt more."

These are babies. They can't understand. But it's a matter of principle--I'm going to explain to this human being, who is my equal, why I have to put the cream on their forehead. I would want someone to do the same for me if I didn't understand them.

#childcare #autonomy #childrensrights

Montana’s landmark climate ruling: three key takeaways

A judge last week ruled the young plaintiffs have the right to a clean environment – and experts say this changed the climate litigation landscape
In a groundbreaking legal decision, a Montana judge last week ruled in favor of young people who had accused state officials of violating their constitutional rights by promoting fossil fuels.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/20/what-happened-montana-climate-trial-decision

#GlobalBoiling #ClimateCrisis #environment #ChildrensRights

#LegalKidnapping #AdoptionTrafficking #adoptionistrauma #relativeplacement #siblingplacements #TribalSovereignty #childrensrights #childrensrightsarehumanrights #familyreunification #familypreservation #everychildmatters #NativeAlaskan #Indigenous #TribalLaw #Alaska #fairbanks #fairbanksalaska

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8Lr7KSx/

Bring Chanel Home!
http://www.bringchanelhome.com

The State Troopers should absolutely be enforcing the order for transitioning! 🤬

#LegalKidnapping #AdoptionTrafficking #adoptionistrauma #relativeplacement #siblingplacements #TribalSovereignty #childrensrights #childrensrightsarehumanrights #familyreunification #familypreservation #everychildmatters #NativeAlaskan #Indigenous #TribalLaw #Alaska #fairbanks #fairbanksalaska

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8LrUXku/

"Family policing abolitionists are making the long overdue case that the child welfare system is perniciously entangled with other carceral state systems like immigration enforcement and the criminal punishment system.[vi] But what is often left out of these narratives is that the family itself is a state institution, and it functions as a part of, not an externality to, carceral systems."

#FamilyAbolition #ChildWelfareSystem #CarceralState #ChattelSlavery #patriarchy #ChildrensRights

https://blindfieldjournal.com/2023/06/06/bringing-abolition-home-why-family-abolition-needs-to-be-at-the-heart-of-the-movement-to-abolish-family-policing/

https://blindfieldjournal.com/2023/06/06/bringing-abolition-home-why-family-abolition-needs-to-be-at-the-heart-of-the-movement-to-abolish-family-policing/

On July 20, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted at once in the second and third, final, readings a bill on the mandatory involvement of school-age children in compulsory "socially useful work".

According to the bill, the legislation will remove the provision that requires parental consent to engage children in work. Pupils of primary and secondary schools will be forced to work taking into account "age and psychophysical characteristics," the document says. Such work will not be paid.

RL
https://www.svoboda.org/a/gosduma-prinyala-zakonoproekt-o-privlechenii-shkoljnikov-k-trudu/32511892.html
#edu #education #children #HumanRights #ChildrensRights #work #media #RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussia #Terror #ChildLabor #BREAKING

UN slams UK over its child rights failures.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2023/06/09/two-sides-of-one-coin-uk-slammed-for-child-migrant-and-military-child-recruitment-policies/

#HumanRights
#ChildrensRights
#UN
#UK
#ChildRefugees
#Military
#MilitaryRecruiment
#ChildSoldiers
#ChildMilitaryRecruitment
#ForcesWatch
#ChildMigrants
#IllegalMigrationBill
#AsylumBan
#Classism
#Welfare
#ChildWelfare

Climate litigation - A federal judge ruled on Thursday that a lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists can proceed to trial years after they first filed the lawsuit in an attempt to hold the nation’s leadership accountable for its role in climate change.

U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the plaintiffs can amend their case, known as Juliana v. United States, and go to trial. A previous trial was halted by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts days before it was to begin in 2018.

Aiken wrote in her decision, “It is a foundational doctrine that when government conduct catastrophically harms American citizens, the judiciary is constitutionally required to perform its independent role and determine whether the challenged conduct, not exclusively committed to any branch by the Constitution, is unconstitutional.”https://apnews.com/article/youth-climate-lawsuit-trial-oregon-7ad2fa18f5276f12c64c0ce775aba2f6 #uslaw #uspol #climate #childrensrights

For #InternationalChildrensDay, here is the Universal Declaration of Children's Rights to Storytelling

(Based on the original Spanish declaration published here: http://www.cuentacuentos.eu/teorica/articulos/Derechosdelosninosaescucharcuentos.htm?fbclid=IwAR0Xo3ZLBEqZp5nY61BTYjpAlrqKNDYdg8QsbgRZuI63qWZeQWGRwYpNxo8 )

1. Every child, regardless of nationality, language, or religion, has the right to listen to the most beautiful stories of every nation, especially the ones that inspire their imagination and teach them critical thinking.

🧵 1/10

#Children #ChildrensDay #storytelling #ChildrensRights

Why I chose @ginlo #Ginlo #Messenger in volunteer - #social #project, #help for structurally weak #families:
For #private purposes #free of charge, #dataprotection & #datasecurity given, based in #Germany, #anonymous possible, #password #protected, #self-destructing #message possible, no #tracking, simple use possible, #encrypted and thus #secure - especially for #children & #youth in #distress.

#humanrights #childrensrights #youthrights #SavetoCall #socialwork #dsvgo

RT @improvserv
Our recent #ChildrensRights Conversations event on #ChildPoverty and children’s rights heard from @LydiaMurphyPA from @povertyalliance about their work on this issue: “Using a rights-based lens allows people to talk about issues that are impacting them without feelings of shame.”

The vaping industry has preyed on young Australians | ASPRO Becky Freeman https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/02/the-vaping-industry-preyed-on-young-australians-with-a-flood-of-dangerous-products-change-was-much-needed #auslaw #auspol #vaping #health #childrensrights #youth

At 65, Mayor in Southern Brazil Marries 16-year-old Beauty Queen

#politics #brazil #feminism #ChildrensRights #BrazilianPolitics
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2023/04/mayor-marries-16-year-old-teen-and-promotes-mother-in-law-to-secretary-of-culture-in-parana.shtml?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=comptw by @catascortecci via @folha

I just don’t know how you could do this to a child. Hasn’t he seen his own children at 12?

Also, aren’t we supposed to keep children this age away from books or images describing genitalia or sex?

#politics #Politics #ChildrensRights

"Fascists should not be allowed to frame the national discourse, and they have proven time and time again that they don’t truly care about the wellbeing of actual children, as opposed to the voiceless victims they’ve created in their heads. They only care about retaining power and control—and pitting scapegoated “demons” against objectified “children” is a means to that end."

https://conversationalist.org/2023/04/06/anti-lgbtq-drag-policies-christian-attacks-rights-tennessee/

#fascism #transphobia #drag #usa #ChildrensRights #lgbtq #HumanRights

Black girls three times more likely to undergo invasive strip-search by Met police

Data analysed by Liberty Investigates shows almost half of girls subjected to strip-searches between 2017 and 2022 were Black

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/06/black-girls-three-times-more-likely-to-undergo-invasive-strip-search-by-met-police

#MetropolitanPolice #children #childrensrights #racism