• Apr 10 2013
  • 12:17pm
Another birthday behind bars for Jacqueline Montanez
Update 30th May:
  • Nov 25 2012
  • 11:16pm
Juvenile Life Without Parole - Show your support for Jacqueline Montanez
Over the last few years we have blogged about the issue of juvenile life without parole in the USA, a sentence which condemns children to spend the rest of their lives in prison, w...
  • Aug 2 2012
  • 12:11pm
You Don't Like the Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo - Omar Khadr's Story
Last week marked 10 years since 15-year-old Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr, was taken into American custody in Afghanistan. Today, Omar is still detained in Guantanamo Bay.
  • Jun 28 2012
  • 11:10pm
A step forward for children's rights in the US: Supreme Court rules on LWOP
On Monday the US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in the cases of Miller v Alabama and Jacskon v Hobbs, ruling that mandatory sentences of life without parole impo
  • May 27 2012
  • 1:19pm
Child Massacre in Houla
The UN has confirmed that over 90 civilians have been killed in Houla. The dead include 32 children under the age of 10.
  • Feb 28 2012
  • 12:02am
Amnesty AGM - A Proposed Resolution on the Rights of Street Children
  • Feb 9 2012
  • 7:55pm
Syria and Bahrain - The Suppression of Protest and Children's Rights
  • Jan 23 2012
  • 6:50pm
USA: Children, Life Without Parole, and the Case of Christi Cheramie
In the USA children can be sentenced to life without parole, despite an almost universal legal and moral consensus that this sentence should never be imposed on someone under the a...
  • Oct 13 2011
  • 12:59am
Bahrain's children caught up in crackdown on protests
In Bahrain the anti-government protests that have spread following the Arab Spring continue to be met with violence, aggression, military trials and the torture and ill-treatment o...
  • Jun 15 2011
  • 3:01pm
Thursday 16th June is the 21st Day of the African Child - 'All together for urgent actions in favour of street children'
The Consortium for Street Children celebrates the Day of the African Child