Article 33: Drug abuse

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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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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ÉDITORIAL : Les droits de l'enfant et la prescription abusive de médicaments
17/Apr/2015 Publication
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Judgment No. 438 of 2008
Tue, 23/12/2008 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning consent to administering psychotropic substances to children in Italy.
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Convention des Nations unies relative aux droits de l'enfant
Fri, 19/12/2014 - 12:30 Instrument
Adoptée et ouverte à la signature, ratification et adhésion par l'Assemblée générale dans sa résolution 44/25 du 20 novembre 1989. Entrée en vigueur le 2 septembre 1990, conformément à l'article 49.
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BELGIUM: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
1/Nov/2014 UN and Regional Documentation
Below is a short summary of some of the key issues from the report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons,...
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BANGLADESH: Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2000/45
1/Nov/2014 UN and Regional Documentation
Below is a short summary of some of the key issues from the report by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women,...
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USA: Medication for foster children under new scrutiny, say doctors
26/Aug/2014 News
Investigation reveals that 1 out of 4 adolescents in California’s foster care system has received prescribed psychiatric drugs over the last decade.
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UGANDA: "Where Do You Want Us to Go?"
23/Jul/2014 Publication
This Human Rights Watch report documents human rights violations against street children in Uganda by police and local government officials, members of the community and older homeless children and adults.
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USA: Pharmaceutical company found guilty of misleading families on unapproved drugs
7/Jul/2014 News
Drugs manufacturer also bribed doctors into prescribing unapproved drugs to children.
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