Article 30: Children of minorities or of indigenous peoples

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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REPÚBLICA CHECA: Amnistía: segregan niños roma en escuelas
6/May/2015 News
La Corte Europea de Derechos Humanos determinó en 2007 que la República Checa debía frenar esa práctica pero según el reporte actual los niños roma siguen representando casi 30 por ciento en escuelas para discapacitados mentales.
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ITALY: Children's Rights References in the Universal Periodic Review
20/Apr/2015 Publication
A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the second Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National report', the 'Compilation of UN information' and the 'Summary of stakeholder information'. Also included is the final report and the list of accepted and rejected recommendations.
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GUATEMALA: Planned mega-dam caused killing of two indigenous children and rights violations of thousands more
27/Mar/2015 News
The planned mega-dam, which is backed by European development banks, has been blamed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for the death of two Mayan children from August 2014.   
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الممارسات الضارة على أساس التقاليد والدين والثقافة والخرافة- ملخص
17/Mar/2015 Publication
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MEXICO: Niños indígenas, con derecho a maestros que hablen maya
13/Mar/2015 News
Niñas y adolescentes yucatecas piden docentes mejor habilitados e instruidos.
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تقرير عالمي: التقرير السنوي لامنستي 2014-2015
26/Feb/2015 Publication
كان عام 2014 عام دمار لمن سعوا إلى رفع راية حقوق الإنسان والدفاع عنها، ولمن حاصرتهم ضروب المعاناة في مناطق الحروب.
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GLOBAL REPORT: Amnesty International annual report 2014/2015
25/Feb/2015 Publication
'This has been a devastating year for those seeking to stand up for human rights and for those caught up in the suffering of war zones. We must hope that, looking backward to 2014 in the years to come, what we lives through will be seen as an ultimate low point from which we rose up and created a better future.'
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IRAK: La ONU expresa su preocupación por los niños
5/Feb/2015 News
El Ministro de los Derechos Humanos iraquí presentó un informe sobre el estado de la protección legal y los abusos cometidos contra los niños.
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HAITI: Innovadora escuela en Haití enseña a los niños en creole, no en francés
19/Jan/2015 News
En una escuela enseñan en creole y con la filosofía de que los niños deben ser vistos, escuchados y tratados con respeto.
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