Article 3: Best interests of the child

DRUG POLICY: 'Accountability for children and young people at the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs'
19/May/2015 Publication
This paper challenges the current framework for evaluating drug policies, and presents one based on the CRC. The three UN drugs conventions currently fail to prescribe any specific measures for children and young people, and only one of these mentions children explicitly.    
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LATIN AMERICA: Progress report on the prohibition of corporal punishment
18/May/2015 Publication
This briefing illustrates the progress made to date in the region, and sets out what needs to be done in those States that have yet to achieve law reform
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EUROPE: Children deprived of liberty in Central and Eastern Europe - Between legacy and reform
18/May/2015 Publication
This study by the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee provides a systematic overview of the closed institutions where children...
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VIOLENCIA: Nuevo informe global sobre la prohibición del castigo físico en las escuelas
18/May/2015 Publication
El informe: 'Hacia escuelas no violentas - prohibición del castigo corporal en todas sus formas' será presentado en el 6º Congreso Mundial sobre Violencia en las Escuelas y Políticas Públicas en Lima, Peru, en mayo de 2015. 
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VIOLENCE: New global report on prohibiting corporal punishment in schools
18/May/2015 Publication
The report 'Towards non-violent schools - prohibiting all corporal punishment' will be launched at the 6th World Congress on School Violence and Public Policies in Lima, Peru, May 2015. 
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FRANCE : maintien des tests osseux pour déterminer l'âge des migrants
15/May/2015 News
Les amendements proposant d’interdire cet examen médical controversé, utilisé abusivement pour déterminer la majorité des jeunes migrants, ont été repoussés par le gouvernement.
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L’EUROPE néglige le droit à l’autodétermination et à l’intégrité physique des personnes intersexes
15/May/2015 News
Une étude du Conseil de l'Europe examine les obstacles médicaux, juridiques et administratifs qui empêchent les personnes intersexes d’exercer pleinement leurs droits fondamentaux.
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CORPORAL PUNISHMENT: Progress towards prohibition in the Pacific Islands
14/May/2015 Publication
This briefing highlights the immediate human rights obligations to prohibit all violent punishment of children in the 16 member States of the Pacific Islands Forum. It will be launched at the Pacific Islands Countries Conference on Violence against Children, Fiji, 18-20 May 2015.  
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Flavio Ugenin Hernández Márquez y otro con Junta Nacional de Jardines Infantiles
Mon, 22/12/2014 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning the distribution of a children's book presenting same-sex parenting in Chile.
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ADOPTION: Earthquake orphans - what Nepal can learn from Haiti
6/May/2015 News
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. 
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