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...
Summary
The 52nd Session of the Committee against Torture will take place from 28 April - 23 May 2014.
Programme of work
To access the full programme of work, visit the OHCHR website.
States under review...
What is immediately obvious from reviewing the justice systems of the European Union (EU), is that life imprisonment of children is now restricted to a small number of States, but that a substantial number of children are affected by such sentences...
Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the second Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the '...
[31 January 2014] -
The parliament of Northern Cyprus voted on 27 January to abolish the criminal code provisions that carried five year prison sentences. Same-sex relationships between women were not mentioned in the code.
"We decriminalized...
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...
CSCA's promary aims are to conduct, facilitate
and coordinate research on children,
disseminate information to specialists and the
public through educational programmes and
provide consultative services to organisations
addressing issues...
The Center for the Study of Childhood and Adolescence (CSCA) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization which conducts research on children and adolescents, disseminates relevant findings and information to specialists and the general public,...
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is working globally to ensure the sexual and reproductive health, choices and rights of women, men and young people.IPPF is the world's largest voluntary organisation in the field of sexual and...
