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Read definitions of child sexual abuse and recommendations that came out of the international congress.

Statistics show that failure to prevent violence against children is resulting in serious economic costs to countries, UNICEF warned at the launch of its ‘End Violence against Children’ campaign in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 

Read an account of leaked incriminating internal UN documents, memos and email correspondence that expose how the UN remained inactive despite clear evidence of child abuse. 

The 15-year-old girl that has killed her 20 years older husband after a forced marriage will not be prosecuted for murder. 

Omar Khadr, the Canadian born ex- Guantanamo detainee has been released on bail. Read CRIN's analysis of the US policy on the detention of child soldiers.

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Hamid Ahmadi was convicted of fatally stabbing a man during a group fight that took place when he was 16 years old. 

CRIN together with other human rights organisations sent a third letter to Pakistan's Federal Minister for Interior to emphasise the need for a fair and transparent inquiry in line with human right standards.

Statement by civil society organisations calling on the UN Secretary-General to clarify measures taken in response to reports of sexual abuse of children by foreign troops in the Central African Republic.   

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has hailed South Sudan's action to become the 195th country to ratify the Convention on the Right of the Child. 

In the wake of Nepal's recent earthquake, this article clarifies the importance of not assuming that unaccompanied children have no living parents or family, and how international adoption is not disaster relief. 

The International Service for Human Rights published a handbook to help NGOs with their application for UN accreditation at one of the least transparent and accountable bodies at the UN, the Committee on NGOs.