The Global Campaign for Education is a movement to end the worldwide crisis in education. Around the world today, 80 million children - most of them girls - are out of school. GCE's mission is to make sure that governments act now to deliver...
Global March Against Child Labour is an international movement dedicated to giving every child a chance to live and grow without the burden of exploitative work. Global March is a movement to mobilise worldwide efforts to protect and promote the...
Located in the south-western Pacific Ocean, the island of Papua New Guinea is one of the world's most culturally diverse countries, with more than 800 native languages. The country gained its independence from Australia in 1975, but has since...
Summary: This report provides an introduction to the extent of the problem of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of children in Papua New Guinea, current responses and the underlying social change. The report outlines the contextual...
Summary: General overview of Papua New Guinea's national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to conduct further research.National laws on children's rights
Status of the CRC in national law
Under Section 117(7) of...
Summary: Information about institutions in Papua New Guinea that monitor children's rights.Children's Ombudsperson
The Ombudsman Commission of Papua New Guinea was established by the Constitution of Papua New Guinea. The Commission is empowered to...
Summary: Report exposes widespread violence that touches the lives of most women and girls, and a 'culture of complicity'.[12 August 2013] -
Research into Papua New Guinea's epidemic of domestic and sexual violence has found few women or...
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...
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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...