Summary: This global report was launched during the week of the presentation of the UN Study on Violence Against Children in New York on 12 October. The report is part of a submission to the Violence Study.As the UN Secretary-General’s Study...
World Organisation Against Torture vs. PortugalThe complaint, lodged on 31 May 2006, relates to Article 17 (right of children and young persons to social, legal and economic protection of the Revised Social Charter. It is alleged that domestic law...
[LISBON, 12 April 2006] - In a verdict that shocked human rights and child advocacy organisations, the bar association and the country's leading analysts, Portugal's Supreme Court ruled last week that corporal punishment of children with mental...
Summary: This is a part-time two-year interdisciplinary and international programme on children's rights. The methodology used includes mandatory teaching modules and distance-learning methods. Each module of the Executive Master considers a...
Child Helpline International is charged with establishing and strengthening a world wide network of child helplines with the objective of having a child helpline in almost every country and representing the child helpline movement at the...
Summary: Looks at: UN Committee on the
Rights of the Child - observations on
the UK; principles and values of play
work; child-friendly lessons that UK
can learn from the Dutch.
Summary: This guide has been designed to
promote awareness amongst police
officers of the different forms of
violence against women and
children, including trafficking.
Available from Council of Europe Publishing
67075 Strasbourg Cedex;
Fax...
ICCYS is a specialised unit for training, research and policy analysis which focuses on the needs of children and youth in developing, transitional and developed societies. It seeks to promote the holistic development of children and youth, and...
Summary: The overall objective of the course,
from a development perspective, is
to enhance the right to relevant
education to all - an education that
empowers the poor and excluded
parts of the population to participate
as active and informed...
Summary: State party reports being
considered: Cameroon, Cape
Verde, Gambia, Kenya, Mauritania,
Qatar, Paraguay, Portugal,
Uzbekistan.
28th Session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
State party reports are...