Summary: Includes sections on discrimination against children in respect of education, religion, culture and housing. Chapter 4 is devoted to women and girls.[4 August 2008] - Iran’s government is failing in its duty to prevent discrimination...
[3 April 2008] -This is a document that was recently sent to several UN Special Procedures, concerning denial of access to education for Bahá'í children in Iran. This document details cases involving expulsions from school, intimidation, harassment...
Commentary by Scott Long, Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Programme at Human Rights Watch, following story of gay teenager facing return to Iran after asylum claims rejected.Anyone who has spent, as I have, long hours over...
[13 December 2007] - Discrimination threatens lives in emergencies, and governments and aid agencies should pay more attention to the needs of vulnerable groups who suffer most in disasters, the Red Cross said in a report released on Thursday....
[17 October 2007] - More and more States worldwide are reforming their laws to prohibit all corporal punishment of children, including in their homes. A new report by the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children analyses the...
Summary: Report submitted to the Third Committee of the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly which will open on 18 September 2007.This year's Report of the Secretary-General on the Status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, is...
[27 de junio de 2007] - Amnistía Internacional insta a las autoridades judiciales y políticas de Irán a ordenar una suspensión inmediata de las ejecuciones de personas menores de edad en el momento del delito y a modificar la legislación pertinente...
[27 June 2007] - Human rights group Amnesty International has called on Iran to halt the execution of child offenders. In a new report, it says Iran is the only country to have executed child offenders so far this year. It lists the names of 71...
Summary: The 'Legislative History of the Convention on the Rights of the Child' is the result of ten years of work by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Save the Children Sweden.Please be aware that this document, which comes...
[NEW YORK/GENEVA, 11 December 2006] – Eliminating gender discrimination and empowering women will have a profound and positive impact on the survival and well-being of children, according to a new UNICEF report issued on UNICEF’s 60th...
