The Islamic Penal Code 2013 came into force in May 2013, replacing the 1991 Penal Code. The new legislation amends the law with regards to the death penalty, life imprisonment and corporal punishment, but these forms of sentencing remain lawful for...
[13 November 2015] - United Nation's peacekeepers in Central African Republic were hit on Wednesday with fresh accusations of sex abuses uncovered by a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation amid growing concern about a failure to combat...
This submission aims to contribute a children’s rightsbased perspective on discussions at the UN relating to the “protection of the family”. In particular, the submission emphasises that such discussions...
This report was submitted ahead of the 73rd pre-sessional working group of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of our campaign against inhuman sentencing of children - defined to include sentences of death, life imprisonment and...
In Saudi Arabia, people may be lawfully sentenced to corporal punishment, life imprisonment and the death penalty for offences committed while under the age of 18.
This report was initially prepared for CRIN in 2010, but was updated in October 2015...
People may be lawfully sentenced to corporal punishment, life imprisonment and the death penalty for offences committed while under the age of 18. Law reform has gone some way to eliminating corporal punishment, but since Pakistan lifted its...
CRIN submission for the preparation of the UN Secretary-General’s report on “Protecting children from bullying”. Our submission aims to contribute information on forms of violence that amount to bullying, but which are often not...
In the preparation of the OHCHR report on "Information and communication technology and child sexual exploitation", this is a submission jointly prepared by the Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention (CJCP), Prof. Sonia Livingstone -...
[19 October 2015] - A report from Augeo Foundation and the Dutch Children's Ombudsman on tackling violence against children in Europe, to coincide with the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children's 2015 theme of Violence against...
The third international multidisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Salzburg, Austria, on 13-15 July 2016.
Organized by the University of Salzburg and the University of Wolverhampton, in association with the UN Office of...