Child rights

Violence Against Children: Recognition, Rights and Responses

Where do we go from here? A child rights-based response to COVID-19

ISSOP formed a working group to examine the impact of Covid-19 on children and we’re proud to report that Shanti Raman ,Maria Harries, Rita Nathawad, Rosina […]

ISSOP COVID-19 DECLARATION

In response to the unprecedented global crisis precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic, ISSOP has issued a declaration focusing on the impact of the crisis on child […]

ISSOP_Separation_Statement

In response to increasing examples of forced separation of children from their parents, ISSOP is publishing a statement condemning this violation of children’s rights. The statement […]

ISSOP Statement on National Politics and Child Rights

In response to controversies related to national politics, ISSOP is publishing a statement on the website clarifying our policy to not engage or comment in the […]

Thirtieth anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: advancing a child rights-based approach to child health and well-being

ISSOP has initiated a series of papers celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the UNCRC. This paper, published in the BMJ Paediatrics Open, celebrates the anniversary and […]

Rights, justice, and equity: a global agenda for child health and wellbeing

ISSOP initiated a series of papers celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This paper, commissioned by Lancet Child […]

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

ISSOP has initiated a series of publications on the 30th Anniversary of the UNCRC. In this paper Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and […]

We must speak up about government sanctioned child abuse at the US border

ISSOP colleagues, Colleen Kraft and Tony Waterston, jointly with Danielle Deines of Doctors For Camp Closures, have published a blog on BMJ Opinion highlighting the government […]