Summary: A year ago, we posted on CRIN an introduction to an 18 month pilot being undertaken to test out a framework and tools designed to monitor and evaluate children’s participation, and to invite potentially interested organisation to take part...
This is a report on the prohibition of corporal punishment of children in West Africa.
98 per cent of children in West Africa are not legally protected from corporal punishment in the home or in alternative care settings.
92 per...
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 'Summary of Stakeholders...
The purpose of the working paper on strengthening child protection systems in sub-Saharan Africa is to consolidate current thinking, examples and lessons learnt about child protection system strengthening and suggest ways forward. the target...
Summary: This report is published to mark the 10th anniversary year of the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC). [13 September 2012...
Summary: The overall purpose of this Manual is to eliminate the knowledge gap about strategies women may adopt to seek justice for sexual violence. It is also to encourage women to use and exhaust all available avenues of justice within their...
For over a decade, efforts have been made in several venues at the United Nations to promote the concept that States have an obligation to adopt and enforce laws against the “defamation of religions.” Some of the countries that support...
Summary: This publication is one of the outputs from the Global Conference on Child Justice in Africa, organised by the African Child Policy forum (ACPf) and Defence for Children International (DCI), which was held in Kampala, Uganda in November...
Summary: General overview of Algeria'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 lawArticle 132 of the Algerian Constitution...
Summary: Information about institutions in Algeria that monitor children's rights.Children's Ombudsperson
In 2001, Algeria officially inaugurated the National Advisory Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, tasked with...
