Recent horrific allegations of sexual abuse in early childhood education and care centres could be a turning point for ...

Next week, the United Nations Human Rights Council will vote on renewing the mandate of the independent expert on protection ...

World / Brazilians held a lot of hope for democracy after the military dictatorship. But the past forty years have proven ...

We must recognise that while men make up only a small proportion of childcare workers, they are responsible for the majority of child sexual abuse cases within them.

Sexual exploitation was closely linked to precarious socioeconomic conditions in empirical research carried out in Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, between 2018 and 2019. 23 Children and ...

The number of women killed in conflict doubled in 2023, underscoring the devastating impact of war on civilians. At the same time, women remain underrepresented in peace processes—despite evidence ...

Families displaced by violence in eastern DRC are rebuilding their lives with support from UNICEF through a cash transfer ...

They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing ...

As Sudan's war extends into its third year, women and girls are facing unprecedented levels of violence and displacement, with armed groups systematically using sexual violence as a weapon of war. On ...

Rampant cases of sexual and gender-based violence against women in East African sports reveal a deeply rooted culture of abuse that threatens to damage the sports sectors of Kenya, Uganda and ...

In Haiti, the U.N. reported sexual violence against 566 children, 523 of them girls, and attributed 411 to the Viv Ansanm gang.