Article 41: Respect for higher standards

TANZANIA: UN criticises government for segregating children with albinism
29/Aug/2014 News
Tanzania’s practice of rounding up children with albinism into government care centres criticised by UN.
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USA: Nine-year-old accidentally shoots and kills gun instructor
29/Aug/2014 News
Latest incident of gun violence leads to calls to review policies regarding children and automatic weapons.
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AUSTRALIA: Six-year-old detained asylum seeker takes her case to Supreme Court
29/Aug/2014 News
Rare class action against government concerning the treatment of injured detainees being held in detention centres. 
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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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AFGHANISTAN: "Bacha bazi" child abuse rising
26/Aug/2014 News
Sexual abuse against children has been rising, says Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission.
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GENDER: The most outrageous ways schools are trying to enforce gender stereotypes
21/Aug/2014 News
By policing children's gender expressions, schools are ultimately reinforcing stereotypes.
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GAZA: More civilians, including children, killed by Israeli strikes since truce collapsed
20/Aug/2014 News
In six weeks of Israeli bombardment, the total Palestinian death toll is now over 2,040, with an additional 10,200 injuries.
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NIGERIA: Boko Haram abduct dozens of boys from village
18/Aug/2014 News
Boys and men forcibly taken by militant group in north-east Nigeria, four months after kidnapping of schoolgirls.
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AUSTRALIA: Anonymous NGO workers condemn 'systematic' rights violations at detention centre
15/Aug/2014 News
Save the Children workers at Australian-run immigration detention camps on Nauru describe numerous cases of abuse.
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JAPAN: Children still being treated as sexual objects in cartoons and comic books
13/Aug/2014 News
Possessing child porn is now illegal in Japan - but depicting children as sexual objects in cartoons or animation isn't.
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