Summary: While elementary students in Chinese public schools with high academic merit are required to wear a red scarf, those 'underachieving' are forced to wear green scarves. [30 October 2011] - Humiliating less 'able' children by making them sit...
Summary: A Chinese woman who had four children in Britain after being turned down for asylum claims she cannot be sent home because of communist state's one child policy, as she fears her children will be taken away by Chinese authorities. [3...
Summary: The debate centres on what is the right age for children to receive sex education. Some think elementary school students are too young, while others say children should be taught basic knowledge on gender differences. High rates of abortion...
Summary: This paper presents the findings of an international Survey on Children's Participation in Family Law Proceedings. Owner: Nicola Taylor and Megan Golloppdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/children-law-proceedings07-1.pdf
Summary: Activists say the girl's right to education is being denied. [BEIJING, 6 September 2011] - The 6-year-old daughter of a blind Chinese activist under unofficial house arrest has been barred from leaving her home and is unable to attend...
[Le 9 aout 2011] - Le gouvernement chinois s'est engagé à lutter vigoureusement contre le trafic des enfants et contre toutes les formes de violations des droits des enfants durant la prochaine décennie. "La Chine prendra...
Summary: Children with dangerously high levels of lead in their blood are being refused treatment and returned home to contaminated houses in polluted villages. Parents, journalists, and community activists who dare to speak out about lead are...
This 75-page report draws on research in heavily lead-contaminated villages in Henan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, and Hunan provinces. The report documents how, despite increasing regulation and sporadic enforcement targeting polluting factories, local...
Summary: Lax regulation and an endless demand by childless couples in the West has created an often exploitative market in babies born in the developing world, in which profit prevails above the best interests of the child. [5 June 2011] - In rural...
Summary: In 2010, the authorities recorded 122 cases of forced marriage, up from 104 in 2009, Myanmar's Ministry of Home Affairs has reported. But bride trafficking will continue for as long as people are poor, said Ohnmar Ei Ei Chaw, national...
