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NIGERIA : frappé par deux attentats commis par deux adolescentes
19/Nov/2015 News
En deux jours, deux attaques de grande ampleur ont endeuillé deux grandes villes du nord-est du pays : Yola, dans l’Adamawa, mardi 17 novembre, et Kano, le mercredi 18 novembre. Au total, en deux jours, 47 personnes ont perdu la vie. Ces attaques récurrentes surviennent alors que l'armée nigériane a délogé les jihadistes du groupe Etat islamique en Afrique de l'Ouest (ex-Boko Haram) dans les principales villes et villages du nord-est du pays.
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: UN peacekeepers face new sexual abuse allegations
13/Nov/2015 News
United Nation's peacekeepers in Central African Republic were hit on Wednesday with fresh accusations of sex abuses uncovered by a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation amid growing concern about a failure to combat sexual misconduct.
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UNITED STATES: Transgender student should have access to girls' locker room
3/Nov/2015 News
The U.S. government on Monday found that a Chicago suburban high school district discriminated against a transgender student and gave the school a month to provide full access to girls' locker rooms or lose federal funding.
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CHILD RIGHTS: CRIN submission to the OHCHR on children's right to an adequate standard of living
28/Oct/2015 Publication
Submission to the OHCHR for the preparation of the report on "Protection of the family and the contribution of families in realising the right to an adequate standard of living".   
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ZAMBIA: No justice for child raped by celebrity
27/Oct/2015 News
Zambia’s President, Edgar Chagwa Lungu, has been hit by crisis after crisis since taking office in January this year, but his greatest shame is one entirely of his own making.
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BELGIQUE : Enfants et euthanasie
7/Oct/2015 Publication
The amendment removes any reference to the age of a patient.
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PAKISTAN: Man initially arrested as a teenager faces execution
28/Sep/2015 News
Pakistani authorities are set to hang a man who says he was 15 when arrested for a murder he says he did not commit, lawyers have said.
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AFGHANISTAN: President vows to stop 'inhuman' child sex abuse
24/Sep/2015 News
The Afghan government says it has "undertaken serious measures" to prevent "abominable" child sexual abuse following a report alleging the practice was rife among the country's armed forces and militias.
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