[7 December 2012] - A total of 170 cases of rape of children under the age of 11 have been reported to police in Swaziland since January 2011.
A one-year-old child was among the victims.
Shocking though this news is; this is not...
[27 October 2012] - [Eighty] per cent of [trafficking victims around the world] are women while 50 per cent are children.
This was revealed by The Will of Hope Trust Public RelationsOfficer (PRO) Nomubuso Mndzebele when responding to...
Summary: Report on life imprisonment sentences for children in the Commonwealth States.In 2010 CRIN, together with other partners, launched a campaign for the prohibition of inhuman sentencing of children- defined to include sentences of death, life...
To educate the public, the bar (lawyers), and the judiciary (judges) about the harm caused by all forms of childhood genital cutting, including female genital cutting (also known as female genital mutilation or FGM), male genital cutting (also known...
Summary: The practice has also contributed to the spread of HIV in polygamous societies. [MBABANE, 20 September 2012] - The practice of men marrying underage girls - which has been an accepted social norm for centuries but has been linked in recent...
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...
[6 June 2012] - Teachers at Lusoti Primary School went on a mass corporal punishment spree on all its pupils much to the shock of parents.
Although this happened on April 18 this year, emotional scars have remained, with some of the parents of the...
Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Themba Masuku is excited about the recently enacted Children’s Protection and Welfare Bill of 2010. He said it covered a number of pertinent issues that related to the being of children in the country. Masuku said the...
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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...
Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholder's...
