Article 6: Survival and development

ONU : Israël ne figure pas sur la ‟liste de la honte”
11/Jun/2015 News
Malgré les appels de plusieurs ONG, motivées par le bilan de la guerre à Gaza, Israël, mais aussi le Hamas, ne figurent pas sur la "liste de la honte" de l'ONU, énonçant les entités violant les droits des enfants.  
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PAKISTAN : exécution d'un homme mineur au moment des faits
10/Jun/2015 News
Alors que Shafqat Hussain a obtenu un sursis, le Pakistan a exécuté Aftab Bahadur, un autre homme arrêté et torturé à l'âge de 15 ans. Il avait passé 22 ans dans le couloir de la mort.
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PUBLIC HEALTH: More than one in four US children exposed to violence involving weapons
9/Jun/2015 News
Although medical associations largely see gun violence as a public health threat, with 10,000 children killed or injured by firearms each year in the US, efforts to address gun violence from a public health standpoint have been met with considerable resistance. 
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CANADA: Forced schooling of aboriginal children was ‘cultural genocide,’ truth commission finds
9/Jun/2015 News
The findings are part of a report documenting widespread physical, cultural and sexual abuse at government-sponsored residential schools run mostly by churches that Indian, Inuit and other indigenous children were forced to attend. 
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ARMED CONFLICT: Ban Ki-moon leaves Israel off list of countries that kill or injure children
9/Jun/2015 News
UN secretary general does not include Israel or Hamas but says number of dead and wounded Palestinian children is unacceptable. 
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PAKISTAN : nouveau report de l'exécution de Shafqat Hussain
9/Jun/2015 News
La Cour Surpême a repoussé mardi in extremis l'exécution de Shafqat Hussain pour examiner la question de son âge au moment des faits.
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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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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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COMITÉ AFRICAIN D'EXPERTS : le Sénégal viole les droits des enfants talibés
1/Jun/2015 News
Le Comité africain d'experts sur les droits et le bien-être de l'enfant a rendu sa décision sur le cas des enfants talibés.
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