Summary: Children's rights featured in hearings on access to information on various topics including reproductive health and sexual orientation, sexual violence against women and girls in Guatemala, migrant workers in the United States, social...
Summary: The 146th Session of the Inter-American Commission will take place from 29 October to 16 November 2012.
Children's rights are set to be on the agenda in a number of discussions scheduled to take place during the 146th session of the Inter-...
Each year thousands of children come to the US seeking protection, safety or to join their families. These children are unaccompanied, often traveling alone or with groups of strangers when making the long journey to cross US borders. An increasing...
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...
[6 September 2012] - Ask Maykon Quispe what kind of violence he sees in his hometown of Huancavelica, in the Peruvian Andes, and he thinks of the markets, where kids his age or younger haul sacks and crates.
"A lot of kids want to help...
Summary: Desde Equidad para la Infancia América Latina queremos posicionar el debate sobre la participación infantil y su capacidad como herramienta de transformación en procesos e iniciativas locales, identificando los desafíos que el contexto...
[12 de junio de 2012] - La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) publicó hoy el Informe Acceso a la Justicia para Mujeres Víctimas de Violencia Sexual: la Educación y la Salud, el cual analiza el...
The Global Context
Worldwide, the number of states which have achieved law reform to prohibit all corporal punishment of children, including in the home, continues to grow – and has more than doubled since 2005 when this form of...
[12 June 2012] - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights presented today the report 'Access to Justice for Women Victims of Sexual Violence: Education and Health'. The report analyses the problem of sexual violence in the educational and...
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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...
