KidsRights News

On Friday December 2, Chaeli Mycroft, winner of the International Children’s Peace Prize 2011, met Archbishop Desmond Tutu. On October 25th, Tutu announced the nominees for the International Chi...

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Winner is committed to the rights of disabled children in South Africa Amsterdam, 21 November 2011 – This afternoon the International Children’s Peace Prize 2011 was awarded to Michae...

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Nobel Peace Laureate emphasizes importance of children’s involvement in improving children’s rights worldwide Amsterdam, 25 October 2011 – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace...

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World Day Against Child Labour is celebrated every year on 12 June. Today, throughout the world, 218 million children still work and 60-100 million children of them work in India. They do not go to sc...

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This week the Young Child Rights Advocates have arrived in the Netherlands. The project, also called Young Child Rights Advocates, is initiated by the organizations IREWOC and ICDI, and is supported b...

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Monday it was announced, during a ceremony in the Hall of Knights in The Hague, that Francia Simon is the winner of the International Children’s Peace Prize 2010. Francia, who is 16 years old and lives in the Dominican Republic, campaigns for the right of children to registration, name and nationality – both for children born in the Dominican Republic as for refugee children from Haiti...

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Pupils of different primary schools in the Netherlands were present at the ceremony of the International Children’s Peace Prize 2010. The pupils had participated in the school programme KidsRights has created for elementary schools in the Netherlands...

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The nominees for the International Children’s Peace Prize 2010 were announced during the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, which took place this weekend in Hiroshima. The programme in Hiroshima brought together laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize, including Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama. On Saturday, Marc Dullaert, founder of the KidsRights Foundation, announced the four nominees...

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Three weeks after the KidsRights MDGs Conference in Johannesburg we are very happy to inform you that the Conference was a great success. During the day speakers highlighted the importance of achievin...

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On Friday July 9, the Dutch foundation KidsRights organizes the KidsRights Millennium Development Goals Conference in Johannesburg. The purpose of this conference is to put the Millennium Goals, which...

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