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Kowalski v. Berkeley County Schools
Wed, 27/07/2011 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning online speech in the United States.
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Droits, recours et représentation : un rapport sur l'accès des enfants à la justice dans le monde
12/Feb/2016 Publication
L'accès à la justice est un droit humain, mais c'est également ce qui fait des autres droits une réalité. Pour que les...
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Rights, Remedies and Representation: A global report on access to justice for children
8/Feb/2016 Publication
Access to justice is a human right, but it is also what makes other rights a reality. For children’s rights to be more...
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UNITED STATES: Inhuman sentencing of children
1/Feb/2016 Publication
Capital punishment is unconstitutional for offences committed by persons under the age of 18 and sentences of corporal...
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Montgomery v. Louisiana
Mon, 25/01/2016 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning the application of the prohibition of mandatory sentences of life imprisonment without parole on juvenile offenders in the United States.  
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ÉTATS-UNIS : L'interdiction de la perpétuité pour les mineurs devient rétroactive
27/Jan/2016 News
En 2012, la Cour Suprême avait banni la perpétuité pour les condamnés de moins de 18 ans. Mais cet avis ne s'appliquait pas forcément aux personnes déjà jugées. Avec la décision rendue lundi, 1 000 personnes peuvent espérer bénéficier d'une libération conditionnelle.
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ESTADOS UNIDOS: A pesar de algunos avances, los niños latinos tienen la tasa más baja de cobertura médica
19/Jan/2016 News
Según un estudio de la Georgetown University, un 39.5 % de niños latinos carece de cobertura médica, comparado con el 24.4 % de los niños en general.
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UNITED STATES: Supreme Court rejects Nestle bid to throw out child slavery suit
12/Jan/2016 News
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a bid by Nestle SA and two other companies to throw out a lawsuit seeking to hold them liable for the use of child slaves in Ivory Coast.
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UNITED STATES: Combatting climate change with the public trust doctrine
17/Dec/2015 Publication
A group of children brought a petition to Washington’s Department of Ecology, asking them to adopt a rule to limit carbon emissions in their state. After being denied and then ignored they appealed against the Department’s rulemaking process claiming that, to be effective, it would have to be in line with up-to-date climate science.
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Zoe and Stella Foster, et al. v. Washington Department of Ecology
Thu, 19/11/2015 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning the duty of the State to protect the right to healthy atmosphere of children in the US state of Washington.
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