Child rights

Despite progress in abolishing capital punishment in Africa, a number of nations on the continent retain it and keep women on the death row.

The 'No Recourse to Public Funds' policy in the UK bars migrants from accessing benefits and deprives them of their most basic human rights.

The death of a Zimbabwean teen who was married off at 14 has infuriated activists who complain about the abuse of women and girls in the name of religion.

Green-Books.org is an Indonesia-based NGO that fuses environmental issues into school curriculums. FairPlanet spoke to its founder about their mission.

By sponsoring lucrative sporting events and teams, the Gulf countries buy the West's compliance with their egregious human rights violations.

Children labouring under harrowing conditions in India's mica mines constitute the human cost of adding glitter to our beauty products.

As the epidemic of school abductions by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria worsens, the government struggles to contain the crisis.

Despite a global controversy, attempts are still made to block the construction of a memorial for the children victims of the Bosnian war in the 90s.