Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of all UN Treaty Bodies and their follow-up procedures. This does not include the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which are...
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Summary: A three-year-old girl was admitted to hospital with more than two dozen 10cm nails in her legs. A police investigation into possible child abuse is under way. [14 November 2011] - Indonesian doctors say they are ready to remove two...
Summary: Due to the use of unreliable age determination tests, young Indonesia boys working as deck hands on boats carrying asylum seekers and detained by Australian authorities, are unfairly placed in adult prisons, where other adult inmates...
Summary: Millions of girls across the world end up as child brides, despite the practice being outlawed in many countries. But some girls are defying their families' attempts to marry them off.[4 October 2011] - Some 10 million girls a year are...
Summary: In a bid to reduce the influence of formula companies on women with misleading advertisements that suggest milk formula is better than breast-milk, Indonesia will soon pass regulations that prevent milk formula companies from targeting...
Summary: Mission to Indonesia, 1-7 July 2002, E/CN.4Recommendations from this report include: Development of rights-based indicators to chart the linkage of education, human rights violations, poverty and conflict; Government commitment to ensure...
Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the first Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholder's...
Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 1386(XIV) of 20 November 1959
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have, in the Charter, reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person,...
Summary: More than 1,300 civil society delegates representing various civil society organisations, including children's rights NGOs, presented a set of recommendations to the government leaders attending the 17th ASEAN Summit which began on 7 May...
