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SOUTH AFRICA: Teenagers no longer prosecuted for kissing or consensual sex
20/Jul/2015 Publication
A law that criminalised sexual activity between consenting adolescents in South Africa - even for kissing and cuddling - and required them to be put on a sex offenders register was struck down as unconstitutional after a challenge from the Centre for Child Law. CRIN looks at the issue in this case study.
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BRAZIL: Lowering the age of criminal majority, and next steps for opposition movement
15/Jul/2015 News
Guest writer for CRIN, Henrique de Souza, from the Brazilian Bar Association, looks at the recently approved proposal to...
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UNITED STATES: Massachusetts' highest court defends corporal punishment as 'part of social fabric'
14/Jul/2015 News
The justicies said it's permissible to punish a child by spanking so long as "reasonable" force is used and the child is not harmed in a lasting way. Conversely, they also emphasised the child should be protected from abuse.
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NETHERLANDS: Remove age limits on right to die, say paediatricians
30/Jun/2015 News
The Dutch Paediatric Association says the country should follow Belgium in changing law on euthanasia and scrapping age limit for children in unbearable suffering. 
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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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CAMEROUN : Elèves d'une école coranique détenus depuis 6 mois
22/Jun/2015 News
Les autorités camerounaises doivent libérer immédiatement quatre-vingt-quatre enfants – dont certains n’ont que cinq ans – qui sont détenus depuis six mois à la suite de descentes effectuées dans des écoles coraniques de l’extrême nord du pays.
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CANADA : La Commission Vérité et Réconciliation qualifie de "génocide culturel" la scolarisation forcée des enfants aborigènes
15/Jun/2015 News
Les Canadiens ont pris conscience du désastre causé par la scolarisation forcée de dizaines de milliers d’Amérindiens et d’Inuits de 1870 à 1970.
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ONU: Rapport du Secrétaire Général sur le sort des enfants en temps de conflit armé
15/Jun/2015 Publication
Le rapport du Secrétaire Général de l'ONU sur le sort des enfants en temps de conflit armé est sorti. 
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ONU : Israël ne figure pas sur la ‟liste de la honte”
11/Jun/2015 News
Malgré les appels de plusieurs ONG, motivées par le bilan de la guerre à Gaza, Israël, mais aussi le Hamas, ne figurent pas sur la "liste de la honte" de l'ONU, énonçant les entités violant les droits des enfants.  
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CANADA: Forced schooling of aboriginal children was ‘cultural genocide,’ truth commission finds
9/Jun/2015 News
The findings are part of a report documenting widespread physical, cultural and sexual abuse at government-sponsored residential schools run mostly by churches that Indian, Inuit and other indigenous children were forced to attend. 
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