Children's rights

Albania is improving its broadcasting code for radio and television to give children better protection, as they are the first ones to suffer damage when the media breaches ethical codes.

More than 150 million children, or nearly one in 10 globally, are victims of forced labor and progress in reducing that number has slowed, a leading United Nations' anti-slavery group said on Sept. 19.

The body of Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali was exhumed Thursday, following a controversial Madrid court ruling in favor of a woman who claims to be his daughter, according to CNN Style.

Dali once said, "Great geniuses produce mediocre children, and I don't want to go through that experience." But Maria Pilar Abel doesn't think he kept that word.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized Greek authorities for mishandling the registration and housing of unaccompanied refugees under the age of 18 on Lesvos.

According to a statement released on Wednesday by HRW, which spoke to 20 refugee children on the eastern Aegean island, unaccompanied minors as young as 15 have been wrongly registered as adults.

Bulgaria marks Thursday the International Children's Day, established in 1925 during the World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland.

One of the main topics at this year's Cannes Film Festival seems to be the migrant issue. We have already seen two pictures on the topic and others will follow, among which one is the highly expected title of the year, Michael Haneke's "Happy End."

World famous actress Vanessa Redgrave arrived in Cannes to present her first film as its director at the age of 80. 

In celebration of mother’s day in the UK, and in hopes of raising awareness around the social stigmas of breastfeeding, a london-based creative agency added a surprising, oversized breast to the streets of shoreditch. as part of its #freethefeed campaign, mother topped an ordinary brick building in the east london district with an enormous, inflatable breast-shaped balloon.

UNICEF and the European Union have launched a joint project to support more than 6000 refugee and migrant children, including unaccompanied minors, across Greece.

The initiative, which comes amid harsh weather conditions in Greece, aims to help keep refugee and migrant safe and cared for, and give them access to child protection and educational services.

More than 1,200 unaccompanied child migrants are on waiting lists for a spot at one of the country's special hostels for vulnerable children, aid workers told a seminar organized by Doctors of the World in Athens Friday.

A brawl broke out late Thursday between young migrants at an accommodation center for unaccompanied minors in Patras, western Greece.

According to the Praksis NGO, which has undertaken the operation of the center, the fight involved 15 teenagers and left one of them slightly injured.