Article 4: Implementation of rights

ARMED CONFLICT: Thirty-seven countries join campaign to protect schools from attacks
8/Jun/2015 News
Dozens of countries have signed up for a Safe Schools Declaration in response to the deliberate targeting of education in war and terror attacks.
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DEATH PENALTY: Rights groups urge Pakistan to call off juvenile execution
8/Jun/2015 News
Shafqat Hussain is expected to be hanged on Tuesday for an offence he 'confessed' to committing after nine days of torture.  
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ASIA-PACIFIC: Cost of child maltreatment tops $200 billion annually, reports UNICEF
3/Jun/2015 News
Statistics show that failure to prevent violence against children is resulting in serious economic costs to countries, UNICEF warned at the launch of its ‘End Violence against Children’ campaign in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 
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GENDER IDENTITY: Being trans in the European Union - Comparative analysis of EU LGBT survey data
2/Jun/2015 Publication
Research conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) found that trans persons face the highest levels of discrimination, harassment and violence amongst LGBT subgroups.  
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EUROPE: ILGA-Europe annual conference on LGBT rights
Wed, 28/10/2015 - 09:00 Event
This year’s Annual Conference takes place in Athens between 28 and 31 October 2015 under the theme Many voices, One...
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MEXICO: La consulta infantil
28/May/2015 News
En las elecciones federales se instalarán casillas para la Consulta Infantil en todo el país para hacer escuchar la opinión de la niñez y la juventud.
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PARTICIPACIÓN: ¡Dejad que los niños voten (o al menos que participen)!
22/May/2015 News
Los niños no tienen derecho a voto, lo que provoca que a menudo la clase política no los tenga en cuenta. Algunos estudios, que apuestan por garantizar este derecho entre los niños, abren el debate sobre su peso en la cosa pública.
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DISCRIMINACIÓN LGBT: La ONU pide respeto a los derechos de jóvenes homosexuales
22/May/2015 News
En el marco del Día Internacional contra la Homofobia, la Bifobia y Transfobia instan a los gobiernos a proteger a este colectivo LGBT, y a integrar sus puntos de vista en políticas y leyes que afecten sus derechos.
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ÉTATS-UNIS : trois fois plus de suicides chez les enfants noirs que chez les blancs
22/May/2015 News
D'après une étude publiée par une association médicale américaine, le taux de suicide des 5-11 ans noirs américains serait plus de trois fois plus élevé que celui des enfants blancs.
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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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