Summary: This is an analysis of alternative reports that have included children. Español / FrançaisThis is an analysis of alternative reports that have included children. It responds to the gap in information concerning children...
[9 February 2012] - The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure which was adopted at the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, will be open for signature at a signing...
This 22nd annual World Report summarises human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close...
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Summary: Lord Goldsmith involved in attempt to overturn law in country which is first of 80-plus targeted by new rights group Human Dignity Trust.
[16 November 2011] - A new British legal rights group will this week kick off a global campaign to...
[25 de octubre de 2011] - Varias ONG pidieron a la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) que interceda para que los Estados actúen contra las agresiones sexuales en las instituciones educativas en Latinoamérica, un...
[17 de junio de 2011] - El Consejo de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos ha aprobado finalmente ayer el nuevo conjunto de principios rectores para los Derechos Humanos y Empresas diseñado para...
Summary: El foro de derechos humanos de las Naciones Unidas se declaró ayer en contra de la discriminación o violencia contra personas en base a su orientación sexual, en una votación que los países occidentales consideraron histórica pero que los...
Read the Act here.Extracts from Belize Education and Training Act 2010 on corporal punishment
Index
Part XI Schooling
52. Use of reasonable force not corporal punishment
Interpretation
Corporal punishment" refers to anything done to a child for the...
The leading children’s rights NGO in Belize issued a press release on 2 March, to welcome the fact that “After a long and arduous advocacy campaign, NOPCAN, along with its allies and supporters and the children of Belize, will soon see...
