Harmful traditional practices

SOUTH AFRICA: Botched circumcisions becoming health crisis in country
17/Jun/2014 News
Problem is most severe in the Eastern Cape province, where nearly 500 young men have died in circumcision rituals since 2006.
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125 مليون فتاة وامرأة يتعرضن لختان الإناث
17/Jun/2014 News
2014/6/16 — وفقا لليونيسف، تنتشر ممارسة ختان الإناث على نطاق واسع في العديد من مناطق العالم، حيث تشير الإحصاءات إلى تعرض...
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UNITED KINGDOM: New law makes it criminal offence to force children into marriage
16/Jun/2014 News
Campaigners say that the new law in England and Wales sends "a powerful message".
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CHILD MARRIAGE: UN agencies welcome African-led push to end child marriage
5/Jun/2014 News
Two United Nations agencies have welcomed the first campaign by the African Union to end child marriage, a practice that robs over 17 million girls – 1 in 3 – across the continent of their youth.
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NIGERIA: How to help in efforts to bring back kidnapped Nigerian girls
8/May/2014 News
Global outrage at the kidnapping has shown a widespread interest by regular people looking to help the girls, or help prevent another tragedy.
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BRUNEI DARUSSALAM: Inhuman sentencing of children
1/May/2014 Publication
Brunei Darussalam to introduce the death penalty, amputation and flogging for offences committed by children.
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PAKISTAN: Sindh Assembly passes landmark bill prohibiting child marriages
30/Apr/2014 News
Sindh Assembly has become the country’s first elected assembly to have passed a bill on child marriages that places a ban on marriage of children under 18 years.
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FINLAND: MPs support proposed restrictions on circumcision
10/Apr/2014 News
[3 April 2014] - A draft law aimed at banning circumcision has received considerable support from the lawmakers in...
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IRAK: Se prevé legalizar el matrimonio entre niños de 9 años
10/Apr/2014 News
El proyecto de ley, que establece nuevas reglas matrimoniales e introduce nuevas restricciones religiosas.
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SENEGAL: Law bans 10-year-old rape victim from aborting twins
7/Apr/2014 News
Efforts of human rights campaigners thwarted by Napoleonic law allowing abortion only in life-or-death circumstances.
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