In 2015, 73 States around the world allowed people to be sentenced to life imprisonment for offences committed while under the age of 18; a further 49 States permited sentences of 15 years or longer and 90 for 10 years or longer. Life imprisonment...
[18 March 2015] - An estimated 800 of those facing execution in Pakistan may have been sentenced to death when they were children, a report released today has revealed.
Justice Project Pakistan and Reprieve conducted a study of 30 prisoners close...
The latest edition of the Global Initiative’s popular leaflet summarising progress towards universal prohibition of corporal punishment is now available.
'Prohibiting all corporal punishment of children: progress and...
فبراير 2015
بينما تتبجح الحكومات بالحديث المرسل عن أهمية حماية المدنيين. تخاذلت النخب السياسية في العالم، على نحو مريع، عن حماية من هم في أشد الحاجة للحماية. وترى منظمة العفو الدولية أن هذا يمكن أن يتغير، بل لا بد من أن يتغير، في نهاية المطاف.
وفي...
[February 2015]
This has been a devastating year for those seeking to stand up for human rights and for those caught up in the suffering of war zones. We must hope that, looking backward to 2014 in the years to come, what we lives through...
[16 February 2015] - This paper contributes longitudinal research evidence on the impact of structural inequalities on children’s development within households and communities, the ways access to health, education and other key services...
The reports looks at how the US drone programme in Pakistan has caused large amounts of militants to relocate to other areas of the country. In turn, this relocation has brought radicalisation, violence and crime to the regions of Pakistan where...
Domestic buildings have been hit by drone strikes more than any other type of target in the CIA’s 10-year campaign in the tribal regions of northern Pakistan, new research reveals.
By way of contrast, since 2008, in neighbouring Afghanistan...
Introduction
The conflict in North Waziristan
Balochistan
Sectarian and religious conflict
Kashmir
Sources
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The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was created in 1947, out of the partition of the Indian sub-continent, and has been divided...
Summary: The South Asian report is a new comprehensive rights-based report which, for the first time, objectively measures the extent to which the South Asian governments and non-state actors have contributed to the creation of child-friendly...
