Article 19: Protection from abuse and neglect

SPORTS: Children's commissioner wants more rights for footballers as young as 10
30/Jun/2015 News
Scotland's commissioner for children and young people has told lawmakers that professional football clubs are exploiting children as young as 10 by tying them to binding legal agreements and treating them as financial commodities.     
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NETHERLANDS: Remove age limits on right to die, say paediatricians
30/Jun/2015 News
The Dutch Paediatric Association says the country should follow Belgium in changing law on euthanasia and scrapping age limit for children in unbearable suffering. 
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SINGAPORE: Convicted teenage blogger placed in mental health detention
24/Jun/2015 News
Teenage blogger Lee Kuan Yew, who was convicted of obscenity and insulting Christianity after he posted a video criticising the late leader Lee Kuan Yew, will be detained for two weeks in a mental health institute until a psychiatric assessment is performed, a court has decided.   
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VIOLENCE: Gov'ts accused of ‘perpetrating violence against women’
23/Jun/2015 News
ActionAid report says officials are ignoring laws to end violence against women, curbing funding of women’s groups, and failing to defend activists. 
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BRAZIL: Organisations call on State to reject bill to lower age of criminal majority
22/Jun/2015 News
Statement by civil society organisations calling on the government of Brazil to refrain from adopting the draft constitutional reform bill proposing to lower the age of criminal majority from 18 to 16 years of age.
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CAMEROUN : Elèves d'une école coranique détenus depuis 6 mois
22/Jun/2015 News
Les autorités camerounaises doivent libérer immédiatement quatre-vingt-quatre enfants – dont certains n’ont que cinq ans – qui sont détenus depuis six mois à la suite de descentes effectuées dans des écoles coraniques de l’extrême nord du pays.
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ARMED CONFLICT: Protecting children in war zones is a moral imperative and legal obligation
19/Jun/2015 News
UN Security Council expands its Children and Armed Conflict Agenda, adding abductions as trigger for inclusion of parties to conflict on the ‘list of shame’.
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SOMALIA: UPR submission on inhuman sentencing of children
18/Jun/2015 Publication
This report was submitted ahead of the 24th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) as part of our campaign against...
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SINGAPORE: UPR submission on inhuman sentencing of children
18/Jun/2015 Publication
This report was submitted ahead of the 24th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) as part of our campaign against...
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JUSTICE: 'Children’s equitable access to justice in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia'
16/Jun/2015 Publication
This UNICEF report sheds light on the tremendous barriers children in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia face in accessing justice for violations of their rights. 
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