News Archive

Latest news and events on children’s rights around the world

It’s important that we know what is going on in the world. Both violations and developments in children’s rights need to be reported and shared. To alert us about a news story where you are, email info@crin.org.

MINORITIES: France probes uproar over Roma baby burial
5 Jan 2015 News
The mayor of Champlan had reportedly denied the family of the Roma infant a burial on the municipal cemetery.
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UK: Increasing amount of drugs prescribed to treat hyperactivity in pre-schoolers
5 Jan 2015 News
[21 December 2014] - An “alarming” number of pre-school children are being prescribed drugs to treat hyperactivity –...
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CANADA: Parents of baby who died in foster care upset over lack of information
2 Jan 2015 News
[30 December 2014] - Parents of an Edmonton baby who died last year in foster care say the Alberta government has been...
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India: Marginalised Children Denied Education
23 Dec 2014 News
[22 April 2014] - School authorities in India persistently discriminate against children from marginalised communities,...
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NEW REPORT: Unaccompanied children treated as criminals in the Commonwealth of Independent States
19 Dec 2014 News
Press release of CRIN's report on rights violations of unaccompanied children travelling between the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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EGYPT: Six-hundred children locked up for months in unofficial police camp
19 Dec 2014 News
The children are being held on political charges, and being denied medical treatment, in a detention centre which Ministry of the Interior denies the existence of. 
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AUSTRALIA: Fresh hope for Baby Ferouz
18 Dec 2014 News
Thirty-one children born to asylum seeker parents have been given permission to remain in Australia in a "one-off" move that follows sweeping immigration reforms in the Senate.
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KAZAKZTAN: Twenty-nine school students and teachers faint one after another in Western Kazakhstan
18 Dec 2014 News
[1 December 2014] - Twenty-five school children and four teachers have unexpectedly fainted in a Western Kazakhstan...
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PAKISTAN: Man tortured into manslaughter ‘confession’ at 15 among those set for execution
18 Dec 2014 News
Shafqat Hussain is among a group of prisoners in Pakistan facing imminent execution.
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IRAN: Alleged juvenile offender among ten hunger strikers threatened with immediate execution
17 Dec 2014 News
Saman Naseem was 17 years old at the time of his alleged offence. He says he has been tortured in detention and forced to “confess”.
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