Summary: Information about institutions in Albania that monitor children's rights. Children's Ombudspersons
The People's Advocate and the Children's Department within that Office have a role in monitoring and protecting children's rights, but...
Summary: The violations highlighted are those issues raised with the State by more than one international mechanism. This is done with the intention of identifying children's rights which have been repeatedly violated, as well as gaps in the issues...
Summary: Hope for Children, UNCRC Policy Centre, on the occasion of the “Universal Children’s Day” on the 20th November, delivered its recommendations on “Children’s Rights in Europe” to the Presidency of the EU Council.The Policy Paper contains...
Summary: An analysis of Albania's compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) and its two Optional Protocols.CRIN would very much like to thank the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher...
Summary: References to corporal punishment by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in its Concluding Observations (CRC 61st session).For further details, visit the Global Initiative’s website for individual country reports for Albania,...
Summary: The full list of Alternative Reports submitted by NGOs for the upcoming 61st Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The session takes place in Geneva from 17 September - 5 October this year.
Alternative Reports...
This paper represents the position of the Separated Children in Europe Programme (SCEP) on age assessment in the context of separated children. In particular, it aims to provide concrete recommendations to States and...
To secure and safeguard the fundamental rights of everyone in the European Union (EU), the EU and its 27 Member States pressed forward with a number of initiatives in 2011. The EU adopted key legislative and policy measures in, for example, the...
Summary: The Commissioner's Human Rights Comments were formally called 'Viewpoints'.
Silencing voices against homophobia violates human rights (June 2012)
Protection of journalists is essential for media freedom in Europe (October 2011)
Human rights...
[21 June 2012] - Recent months have seen renewed efforts in some Council of Europe member States to silence voices against homophobia and transphobia. Laws banning information about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and inter-sex (LGBTI) issues...
