US Attorney-General, Eric Holder, says placing children in solitary confinement "can be dangerous, and a serious impediment to the ability of juveniles to succeed once released."
UN warns that hundreds of thousands of children in the country's most crisis-torn areas are at imminent risk of death and disease, including the threat of cholera.
An investigation has begun as to why a 15-year-old boy, who was among the 245 miners killed in the recent mining disaster in Soma, Turkey, was ever allowed to enter the mine.
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Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, a Dutch jurist and former Deputy Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, has been appointed as the next UN special rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.