The failure of health chiefs to disclose details of the number of children who died in state care since 2000 is genuinely frightening, Amnesty International warned today.

THE mother of a four-year-old boy, who faces deportation if he does not enrol in a private primary school, said she will not allow him to go back to the United States without her.

THE human rights of children in Ireland came under fire yesterday in an international report.

THERE is an inescapable perception that Ireland is still inclined to drag its feet on the vexed issue of children’s rights.

DEPRESSING images of child poverty in Ireland will soon become a reality for the world to see as Barnardos, the country’s leading charity in this field, launches a website to heighten awareness of a grim scenario where young lives are blighted by alcohol, drug abuse and violence.

Radical proposals for what a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland should contain were made today by the North's Human Rights Commission.