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AUSTRALIA: Anonymous NGO workers condemn 'systematic' rights violations at detention centre
15/Aug/2014 News
Save the Children workers at Australian-run immigration detention camps on Nauru describe numerous cases of abuse.
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BOLIVIA: State bans all corporal punishment of children
11/Aug/2014 News
The State has become the sixth Latin American country and thirty-ninth worldwide to prohibit all corporal punishment outright. 
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USA: Inquiry finds a ‘culture of violence’ against teenage inmates at New York's Rikers Island
5/Aug/2014 News
Inquiry finds that the civil rights of male teenagers were violated and that there was no protection given to the boys from the rampant use of unnecessary and excessive force by correction officers.
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ÉTATS-UNIS : les prisons pour mineurs de New-York gangrenées par la violence
5/Aug/2014 News
Les prisons pour jeunes délinquants à New York sont gangrenées par de la violence extrême et une sécurité défaillante, des gardiens violant fréquemment les droits des détenus adolescents, les soumettant à un «usage croissant de force excessive et inutile»
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MÉXICO: Unicef pide elaborar registro nacional de albergues
28/Jul/2014 News
Pedido de revisión y creación de un registro sistematizado, ante lo ocurrido en el albergue “La Gran Familia” en Michoacán.
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MEXICO: Hundreds of children found at vermin-infested shelter
22/Jul/2014 News
Children routinely subjected to physical, psychological and sexual abuse at "The Big Family" shelter and denied visits from their parents, say authorities.
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IRAN: Halt execution of juvenile offender, urges human rights group
16/Jul/2014 News
Amnesty International has urged Iran to halt the execution of a young man who was a child at the time of his alleged crime.
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MÉXICO: 462 niños son rescatados de hogar luego de diversas denuncias sobre maltratos y abusos
16/Jul/2014 News
En un operativo conjunto, el Ejército Mexicano y la Policía Federal rescataron a más de 600 personas, entre ellas 462 niños de la casa hogar La Gran Familia, en el Estado de Michoacán.
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DEATH PENALTY: UN Secretary-General declares that ‘death penalty has no place in 21st century'
3/Jul/2014 News
UN chief expresses concern about legislation in 14 countries that permits the death penalty for children.
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USA: Victory for LGBTI children after Supreme Court ruling on California law
1/Jul/2014 News
US Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to a California law that bans “conversion therapy” aimed at changing the sexual orientation of gay and lesbian minors.
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