Article 17: Access to appropriate information

NEPAL: Bogus orphan trade fuelled by rise in 'voluntourism'
28/May/2014 News
Poor parents routinely duped into sending children to homes where owners use them to extract money from foreign visitors.
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UNITED STATES: Court to review prosecution of Catholic church official
12/May/2014 News
Pennsylvania's highest court will review the long-debated prosecution of a Roman Catholic church official who was tried, imprisoned and then freed over his handling of priest sex-abuse complaints.
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HOLY SEE: UN Panel on Torture Presses Vatican Envoy on Abuse
6/May/2014 News
Vatican has faced sharp questioning by UN about whether it failed to abide by an international treaty against torture in its response to the sexual abuse of children by priests.
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MALDIVES: Country should repeal new regulation providing for death penalty, says UN
30/Apr/2014 News
UN voices deep concern about a new regulation that effectively overturns a 60-year moratorium on the use of capital punishment and allows for children as young as seven to be sentenced to death for certain crimes.
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Комиссар Совета Европы по правам человека: Защита прав детей в цифровом мире: постоянно растущий вызов
29/Apr/2014 Publication
Большинство подростков проводят значительную часть своего времени в Интернете, часто используя при этом социальные медиа,...
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ARGENTINA: Teenager who spent nine years locked in a garage rescued
17/Apr/2014 News
A 15-year-old girl has been rescued in Argentina after being nearly starved and beaten in a garage by an adoptive family for nine years.
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FRANCE: Unaccompanied Children Detained at Borders
11/Apr/2014 News
As many as 500 children who arrive alone each year in transit zones at the borders detained by authorities, according to Human Rights Watch research.
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SENEGAL: Law bans 10-year-old rape victim from aborting twins
7/Apr/2014 News
Efforts of human rights campaigners thwarted by Napoleonic law allowing abortion only in life-or-death circumstances.
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PAKISTAN: Nine-month-old baby accused of attempted murder
7/Apr/2014 News
Police in Lahore province charge baby with planning a murder, threatening police and interfering with state affairs.
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DISCRIMINATION: Respect for the human rights of Roma is an unfulfilled promise, say activists
7/Apr/2014 News
On the eve of International Roma Day on 8 April, human rights group documents the discrimination that still continues against Roma people.
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