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Benin and Andorra have joined the list of now 46 states prohibiting all forms of corporal punishment. Benin is the seventh in Africa and Andorra is the 28th county in Europe.

After the first execution has been suspended due to internationl pressure, Shafqat Hussain has now been handed another execution warrent.

Ten years after underage marriage was prohibited, 39 percent of girls are married before age 15, and two remain on death row for killing much older husbands.      

More than 700 unaccompanied children are still living in initial reception facilities in Italy while they wait to be placed in children’s homes.

The High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein presents the annual report on the OHCHR activities to open the Human Rights Council session in Geneva on 3 March 2015.

The terrorists killed 68 people in the remote village of Njaba in northeast Nigeria in the dawn on Thursday.

Muhammad Afzal, who spent 16 years in prison after receiveing his death sentence in 1999 by an anti-terrorism court, will be hanged on 05 March 2015. 

The Council of Europe has criticised France for the lack of an explicit and clear ban of corporal punishment in national law. 

[25 February 2015] - A decree came into force in Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, on February 25 requiring Internet cafes...

Education Minister Liz Sandals confirmed that parents will be able to pull their children out of some lessons of the new sex education curriculum. 

Oak Foundation is seeking to commission an organisation with significant international field experience and a track record...

Kluiverth Roa was injured during a confrontation between police and protesters in the city, and died on the way to the hospital, according to local human rights workers.