Article 37: Torture and deprivation of liberty

SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES: CRC alternative report on inhuman sentencing of children
30/يونيو/2015 Publication
This report was submitted ahead of the the 72nd pre-sessional working group of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child...
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UNITED KINGDOM: CRC alternative report on inhuman sentencing of children
30/يونيو/2015 Publication
This report was submitted ahead of the the 72nd pre-sessional working group of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child...
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NETHERLANDS: Remove age limits on right to die, say paediatricians
30/يونيو/2015 News
The Dutch Paediatric Association says the country should follow Belgium in changing law on euthanasia and scrapping age limit for children in unbearable suffering. 
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Hutchinson v. United Kingdom
ثلاثاء, 03/02/2015 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning the compatibility of whole life terms in the UK with Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Harkins and Edwards v. United Kingdom
ثلاثاء, 17/01/2012 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning life imprisonment without parole and proportionality of sentencing in the UK.
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R (on the application of Wellington) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department
جمعة, 18/05/2007 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning whether the applicant’s extradition from the UK to the US to face mandatory life imprisonment without parole would constitute inhuman or degrading punishment.
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SINGAPORE: Convicted teenage blogger placed in mental health detention
24/يونيو/2015 News
Teenage blogger Lee Kuan Yew, who was convicted of obscenity and insulting Christianity after he posted a video criticising the late leader Lee Kuan Yew, will be detained for two weeks in a mental health institute until a psychiatric assessment is performed, a court has decided.   
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VIOLENCE: Gov'ts accused of ‘perpetrating violence against women’
23/يونيو/2015 News
ActionAid report says officials are ignoring laws to end violence against women, curbing funding of women’s groups, and failing to defend activists. 
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BRAZIL: Organisations call on State to reject bill to lower age of criminal majority
22/يونيو/2015 News
Statement by civil society organisations calling on the government of Brazil to refrain from adopting the draft constitutional reform bill proposing to lower the age of criminal majority from 18 to 16 years of age.
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Deadline for submissions to the 55th session of the Committee Against Torture
اثنين, 13/07/2015 - 09:00 Event
The deadline for NGO submissions to the CAT for the 55th session considering state party reports from Iraq, Slovakia and Switzerland is the 13th July 2015
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