The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is working globally to ensure the sexual and reproductive health, choices and rights of women, men and young people.IPPF is the world's largest voluntary organisation in the field of sexual and...
• Help youth escape slavery and exploitation in the United States• Help orphaned youth safely transition to adulthood in Ethiopia and Cambodia• Support critical first responders in identifying and responding to child trafficking victims• Organize an...
Center Against Abuse „Dardedze” is a non governmental, non profit organization working to prevent child abuse in Latvia and to provide direct help to children exposed to sexual, physical, emotional abuse and neglect.
Our vision and...
A northern European country bordered by Lithuania, Russia, Belarus and Estonia, Latvia is one of the least densely populated countries in the European Union. After breaking free from Soviet control in 1991, Latvia established itself as a...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of all UN Treaty Bodies and their follow-up procedures. This does not include the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which are...
Summary: This report summarises the status of children's rights in Latvia vis-a-vis European human rights mechanisms.Search CRIN's ratifications table to find regional instruments to which Latvia is a party.
European Court of Human Rights
Latvia is...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child...
Summary: The draft law seeks to include smoking in the presence of children within the legal definition of behaviours that are detrimental to children. [25 April 2013] - The Latvian parliament passed in a second reading on Thursday a bill that...
To educate the public, the bar (lawyers), and the judiciary (judges) about the harm caused by all forms of childhood genital cutting, including female genital cutting (also known as female genital mutilation or FGM), male genital cutting (also known...
[27 September 2012] - Having received the letter from 54 NGOs protesting against "the destruction of gender identity", Ombudsman Juris Jansons gave his assessment yesterday of the new "gender-bending" children's book and...
