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VIOLENCE: Gov'ts accused of ‘perpetrating violence against women’
23/Jun/2015 News
ActionAid report says officials are ignoring laws to end violence against women, curbing funding of women’s groups, and failing to defend activists. 
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CENTRAL AMERICA: Gang violence fuelling child marriage, researchers say
15/Jun/2015 News
Although there is little data on the impact of gang violence on child marriage, anecdotal evidence shows girls are getting married and coupled with gang members, which they see as a form of protection from gang violence and intimation from other gangs. 
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ZIMBABWE: Courts are seeing 'consenting' sex with over-12s as unproblematic, activists say
15/Jun/2015 News
Courts appear to be trivialising child sex abuse, activists say, as child rapists are being acquitted as long as the child is over the age of 12 and appears to have consented. 
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NIGERIA : abandon des poursuites contre une adolescente accusée d'avoir tué son mari
26/May/2015 News
Le parquet nigérian a abandonné mercredi les poursuites contre une adolescente de 15 ans accusée d'avoir empoisonné son mari de plus de vingt ans son aîné avec de la mort aux rats.
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NIGERIA: Child bride murder charges dropped
21/May/2015 News
The 15-year-old girl that has killed her 20 years older husband after a forced marriage will not be prosecuted for murder. 
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ITALY: Children's Rights References in the Universal Periodic Review
20/Apr/2015 Publication
A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the second Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National report', the 'Compilation of UN information' and the 'Summary of stakeholder information'. Also included is the final report and the list of accepted and rejected recommendations.
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NIGERIA: Child brides facing death sentences a decade after child marriage prohibited
11/Mar/2015 News
Ten years after underage marriage was prohibited, 39 percent of girls are married before age 15, and two remain on death row for killing much older husbands.      
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GUIDE: The role parliamentarians can play in ending child marriage
5/Mar/2015 Publication
[4 March 2015] - There is no single solution to child marriage but a strong, coherent, and comprehensive legal and policy...
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TURKEY: Teacher calls for 'harassment teams' against miniskirts
20/Feb/2015 News
The deputy principal of an Anatolian high school suggested that “male students could follow girls who wear short skirts to make them feel uncomfortable, after which the students would eventually have to dress ‘properly.’”
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CHILD LABOUR: Child domestic workers - the dawn of a new Convention?
11/Feb/2015 Publication
Menu: Introduction | Call for Action | UN Committee on Migrant Workers | Violations of the rights of child domestic...
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