[9 February 2012] - The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure which was adopted at the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, will be open for signature at a signing...
Summary: This marks the second ever verdict for crimes committed during the country's 36-year civil war. [22 March 2012] - A Guatemalan court yesterday sentenced five men to 7,710 years in prison each for their roles in a 1982 massacre that left at...
Summary: El objetivo de este cuestionario es crear un mapeo mundial de y una guía sobre cómo funciona el cabildeo en cada país para los defensores de los derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes. Por favor envía los cuestionarios rellenados a...
Summary: Guatemala presents the second highest rate of female homicide in the world. [7 February 2012] - The relentless wave of femicides in Guatemala, which has one of the highest female murder rates in the world, has prompted actions by the...
This 22nd annual World Report summarises human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close...
Summary: In 1982, over 440 men, women and children were massacred to make way for the Chixoy Dam - a World Bank and IADB project.[4 January 2012] - On the morning of March 13, 1982, 10-year-old orphan Jesus Tecu Osorio woke up in his rural Maya Achi...
[8 de diciembre de 2011] - El acoso homófobo de los jóvenes y la violencia asociada a esa discriminación no es una realidad de unos pocos países, sino algo común en escuelas y comunidades de todas partes del...
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[25 de octubre de 2011] - Varias ONG pidieron a la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) que interceda para que los Estados actúen contra las agresiones sexuales en las instituciones educativas en Latinoamérica, un...
Summary: CRIN has launched a "Children's Rights Wiki" to bring together all information about children's rights in one place. العربيةThe aim of the project - which is in the style of a Wikipedia - is to make...
