As Latin America battles gender-based violence, countries are passing laws to support children whose parents are killed.

A global UNICEF study suggests many Canadian kids are unhappy. Its recent Report Card suggests one in five youth in Canada face frequent bullying, one in five are lonely and one in four struggle to ...

Colombia ranks 20th worldwide in terms of the number of girls married or in unions before the age of 15, and 11th in Latin America and the Caribbean in adolescents who marry before the age of 18. By ...

Andrea Tague Montaña, gender and development officer at UNICEF in Colombia, agrees that the decision is a positive move. “Child marriages and early unions are understood as harmful practices that not ...

Some 3,800 children migrated alone through the Darien Gap, a treacherous jungle route between Colombia and Panama in just the first 10 months of 2024. That's compared with 3,300 in all of 2023.

Colombia's government voted Thursday to ban child marriage, after previously allowing those as young as 14 to get married. The law, pushed forward under the slogan "they're girls, not wives ...

Data from the United Nations shows 23% of women aged 20 to 24 in Colombia were married as a child. The global average is 20%, according to UNICEF. Colombia’s Congress has voted in favour of banning ...

The lawmaker celebrated the bill’s passage as a “historic moment for the children of Colombia.” According to UNICEF, Colombia ranks among the top 20 countries globally in terms of early marriage rates ...

UNICEF calls for global action to combat sexual violence The report was released ahead of the inaugural Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children in Colombia next month.