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ASIA-PACIFIC: Cost of child maltreatment tops $200 billion annually, reports UNICEF
3/Jun/2015 News
Statistics show that failure to prevent violence against children is resulting in serious economic costs to countries, UNICEF warned at the launch of its ‘End Violence against Children’ campaign in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 
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SOUTH SUDAN: Ratification of UNCRC
6/May/2015 News
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has hailed South Sudan's action to become the 195th country to ratify the Convention on the Right of the Child. 
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OPEN LETTER: Call for action to stop repeated human tragedies in the Mediterranean
23/Apr/2015 News
The European Network of Ombudspersons for Children appeals to all national governments, the European Union, and the International Community to act. 
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TAJIKISTAN: Increasing number of children left behind by parents looking for work abroad
13/Apr/2015 News
Many children grow up in orphanages after more and more mothers also leave them in the search for work. 
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الممارسات الضارة على أساس التقاليد والدين والثقافة والخرافة- ملخص
17/Mar/2015 Publication
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ITALY: Scores of migrant boat children sent to care facilities, but hundreds still waiting
6/Mar/2015 News
More than 700 unaccompanied children are still living in initial reception facilities in Italy while they wait to be placed in children’s homes.
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UNHRC 28th Session: Opening statement by the High Commissioner for Human Rights
6/Mar/2015 News
The High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein presents the annual report on the OHCHR activities to open the Human Rights Council session in Geneva on 3 March 2015.
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تقرير عالمي: التقرير السنوي لامنستي 2014-2015
26/Feb/2015 Publication
كان عام 2014 عام دمار لمن سعوا إلى رفع راية حقوق الإنسان والدفاع عنها، ولمن حاصرتهم ضروب المعاناة في مناطق الحروب.
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GLOBAL REPORT: Amnesty International annual report 2014/2015
25/Feb/2015 Publication
'This has been a devastating year for those seeking to stand up for human rights and for those caught up in the suffering of war zones. We must hope that, looking backward to 2014 in the years to come, what we lives through will be seen as an ultimate low point from which we rose up and created a better future.'
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AUSTRALIA: 'The Forgotten Children - national inquiry into children in immigration detention'
13/Feb/2015 Publication
This report by the Australian Human Rights Commission shows evidence of how immigration detention is harming children's mental and physical health. 
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