This report is part of CRIN's access to justice for children project, looking at the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in national law, the status of children involved in legal proceedings, the legal means to challenge...
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...
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.
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[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...
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...
Summary: This report summarises individual observations and direct requests issued by the ILO Committee of Experts related to child labour conventions. To view the full reports, go to the NORMLEX database (http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en) and...
Summary: The violations highlighted are those issues raised with the State by more than one international mechanism. This is done with the intention of identifying children's rights which have been repeatedly violated, as well as gaps in the issues...
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Developments on the use of the death penalty in 2011 confirmed the global trend towards abolition. The number of countries that were...
