Article 41: Respect for higher standards

JUVENILE JUSTICE: US Attorney-General calls for an end to "excessive" use of solitary confinement
19/May/2014 News
US Attorney-General, Eric Holder, says placing children in solitary confinement "can be dangerous, and a serious impediment to the ability of juveniles to succeed once released."
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UNITED STATES: Court to review prosecution of Catholic church official
12/May/2014 News
Pennsylvania's highest court will review the long-debated prosecution of a Roman Catholic church official who was tried, imprisoned and then freed over his handling of priest sex-abuse complaints.
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HOLY SEE: UN Panel on Torture Presses Vatican Envoy on Abuse
6/May/2014 News
Vatican has faced sharp questioning by UN about whether it failed to abide by an international treaty against torture in its response to the sexual abuse of children by priests.
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MALDIVES: Country should repeal new regulation providing for death penalty, says UN
30/Apr/2014 News
UN voices deep concern about a new regulation that effectively overturns a 60-year moratorium on the use of capital punishment and allows for children as young as seven to be sentenced to death for certain crimes.
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BRUNEI: Tough Islamic penal code introduced
30/Apr/2014 News
Despite the UN voicing "deep concern" about the planned changes, country will introduce law on 1 May, with proposed punishments including the severing of limbs for theft.  
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IRAN: Four juvenile executions in four days
22/Apr/2014 News
Human rights group says hanging of 16-year-old comes just days after execution of three other juveniles.  
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ARGENTINA: Teenager who spent nine years locked in a garage rescued
17/Apr/2014 News
A 15-year-old girl has been rescued in Argentina after being nearly starved and beaten in a garage by an adoptive family for nine years.
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UNITED KINGDOM: Children’s charity condemns High Court’s anonymity cut-off
14/Apr/2014 News
Children formerly involved in court proceedings may be named by the media once they are 18, the UK's High Court has ruled.
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FRANCE: Unaccompanied Children Detained at Borders
11/Apr/2014 News
As many as 500 children who arrive alone each year in transit zones at the borders detained by authorities, according to Human Rights Watch research.
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SENEGAL: Law bans 10-year-old rape victim from aborting twins
7/Apr/2014 News
Efforts of human rights campaigners thwarted by Napoleonic law allowing abortion only in life-or-death circumstances.
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