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PARAGUAY: Juvenile detention guards arrested over death of two teens during riot
6/ماي/2014 News
According to the forensics report, each teen had been riddled with nine bullets during a riot in which beds had been set on fire in a demand for more TV time.
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BAHRAIN: 176 children detained as a result of security events
6/ماي/2014 News
Local authorities have accused these children of charges related to the political situation in the country and especially during the recent escalation of protests in Bahrain. 
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HOLY SEE: UN Panel on Torture Presses Vatican Envoy on Abuse
6/ماي/2014 News
Vatican has faced sharp questioning by UN about whether it failed to abide by an international treaty against torture in its response to the sexual abuse of children by priests.
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NIGERIA: Boko Haram 'to sell' Nigeria girls abducted from Chibok
6/ماي/2014 News
Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram has threatened to "sell" the hundreds of schoolgirls it abducted three weeks ago.
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MALDIVES : un nouveau règlement prévoit la peine de mort pour les enfants
5/ماي/2014 News
Le Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies aux droits de l'homme (HCDH) a exprimé mardi sa préoccupation concernant un nouveau règlement aux Maldives sur l'application de la peine de mort, qui met fin à un moratoire de 60 ans dans ce pays.
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NIGERIA : les lycéennes enlevées "mariées de force aux hommes de Boko Haram"
5/ماي/2014 News
Enlevées dans leur lycée le 14 avril à Chibok, dans le nord-est du Nigeria, la plupart des 187 jeunes femmes aux mains des islamistes de Boko Haram auraient été mariées de force et emmenées dans les pays voisins, notamment au Cameroun.
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HOLY SEE: Joint press release by CRIN and OMCT to UN torture committee
2/ماي/2014 News
Joint press release by CRIN and OMCT ahead of the Holy See's review before the UN Committee against Torture
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DISCRIMINATION: LGBTQ youths detained for status offences twice as often as others
2/ماي/2014 News
Research has shown that LGBTQ youth are overrepresented in the juvenile justice system, and once in the system may receive overly harsh punishments because of biases or be placed in isolation in the name of protecting them.   
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NIGERIA: Kidnapped schoolgirls 'forced to marry captors'
1/ماي/2014 News
The girls are reportedly being paid £7 to marry Boko Haram militants. 
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MALDIVES: Country should repeal new regulation providing for death penalty, says UN
30/أبريل/2014 News
UN voices deep concern about a new regulation that effectively overturns a 60-year moratorium on the use of capital punishment and allows for children as young as seven to be sentenced to death for certain crimes.
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