Located on the north coast of South America, Venezuela borders Colombia, Guyana and Brazil and is extremely rich in natural resources such as oil, coal, iron ore and gold. In 1998, leftwing candidate Hugo Chavez was elected to the presidency and...
Summary: On the 6 October 1997 the Committee on the Rights of the Child devoted a Day of General Discussion to the theme "The Rights of Children with Disabilities". This is the submission made by the Fundacion Para la Proteccion de la Infancia...
[9 de septiembre de 2013] -
Venezuela se retira del sistema interamericano de derechos humanos, acusándolo de servir a Washington para agredir a su gobierno socialista y bajo protesta de organismos humanitarios que temen...
[6 September 2013] - Venezuela must immediately reverse its decision to withdraw from the American Convention on Human Rights and make a commitment to truly protect all individuals, Amnesty International said today.
The Venezuelan...
Summary: La jueza Tercero de Juicio con competencia en Protección de Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes de Caracas, Betilde Araque, consideró que el diario violó la Ley Orgánica de Protección de Niños y Adolescentes al publicar una imagen del interior de...
[11 de julio de 2013] -
Entre octubre de 2010 y septiembre de 2011, la Organización No Gubernamental Cecodap (Centros Comunitarios de Aprendizaje) recogió 4.107 casos de diferentes tipos de violencia que afectaron a niños...
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 ILOLEX database (http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/) and click on '...
Summary: Three boys are among the family members killed extrajudicially in the past 15 years. [22 May 2013] - With ten killings in their family in a little over a decade, the Barrios' story is hard to believe.
It all started in the early hours...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child...
Introducción
El acceso de los niños a la justicia requiere que todos ellos puedan participar plenamente en los procedimientos judiciales, independiente de cómo entren en contacto con la ley. En general, la idea es que los ni...
