Summary: This is an analysis of alternative reports that have included children. Español / FrançaisThis is an analysis of alternative reports that have included children. It responds to the gap in information concerning children...
[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: On 22 March, the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Sri Lanka.In a resolution (A/HRC/19/L.2/Rev1) regarding promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka, adopted by a vote of 24 in favour, 15 against and 8...
Summary: The Human Rights Council held its general debate on human rights situations that require the attention of the Council (Item 4), on 13 March 2012. The debate saw the participation of many States and NGOs.On 13 March, the Human Rights Council...
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...
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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...
Summary: More than two years after Sri Lanka's decades-long conflict officially ended, the whereabouts of 630 children is still unknown. [COLOMBO, 14 September 2011] - The failure of a national accountability commission into human rights abuses in...
Summary: Information about institutions in Sri Lanka that monitor children's rights.Children's Ombudsperson
Sri Lanka has a National Human Rights Commission responsible for the monitoring of human rights nationally, although as of 2010 it had no...
Summary: More than two years after Sri Lanka's decades-long conflict officially ended, the whereabouts of 630 children are unknown, according to a government database. [VAVUNIYA, 1 August 2011] - Most went missing during the final phase of...
