After years of debate, worldwide consultations, and tense negotiations, the United Nations approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September 2015. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), like the Millennium Development Goals before them, have had a big influence on how the world approaches international development. It has also unavoidably influenced children’s rights advocacy by deciding which areas would get …

It cannot be stressed enough that the EU is a “Union of law” where the rule of law has been the paradigm of the European model and the structure of the common Europe since its foundation. The Treaty on the European Union (TEU) enshrines the rule of law as one of the fundamental values of the EU thereby making it …

Nine months after the military coup, Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG), which stands in opposition to the junta, has declared the formation of a command structure to coordinate between civilian resistance forces and allied ethnic armed organizations also known as EAOs in which women are currently starting to play a more present role and, as armed resistance to a military …

More than 100,000 children were forced to become soldiers in state and non-state military organizations in at least 18 armed conflicts throughout the world, according to the advocacy group Child Soldiers International. According to the UN, the majority of these children were under the age of 15, with 40 percent of them being girls. The United Nations has identified 14 …

The terrorist group and self-proclaimed Islamic State, ISIL, also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS, has repeatedly committed fundamental violations of children’s rights in the Middle East, and more specifically in Iraq and Syria, the cluster currently controls large areas in which millions of individuals live and it has declared itself a “State” therefore it is …

“The scenes of a toddler lying dead in the mud and the body of a boy washed up on a Turkish beach are tragic evidence of the world’s failure to fulfil its obligations to the world’s children” (UN News, 2017). Because of countries’ lax commitment or unsuccessful strategies of children’s rights protection, approximately 1 billion children see their basic human …

Human rights are presently being violated in large numbers by entities other than the state, especially multinational corporations, as the wind of economic globalisation blows throughout the globe (MNCs). Unfortunately, many states, particularly developing ones, do not control the operations of multinational corporations for a variety of reasons, resulting in a regulatory vacuum. In this sense, one of the prominent …

Although the effects of an uncontrolled global climate warming and the impact over world’s environments and habitats that would follow are well covered by the scientific community, decision-makers should also be concerned over the impact that the unavoidable future we might be walking towards will have over the most vulnerable part of the world’s population: children. The literature regarding the …

The area between Poland and Belarus is often overlooked, but in recent times the border the two countries share has become more and more of a melting point, for what concerns their relationship it has had good and bad times during the last 26 years, periodically Warsaw played an important intermediary role in improving EU–Belarus relations, in spite of this, however, the bilateral …

The news of the last few days have been focused on one thing and one thing only: COP26, it has been the title of newspapers, broadcasts, podcasts, and every other digital-based tool available on the market, making it impossible for the public to ignore what is probably one of the most crucial gatherings in the last decade and that is …