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 [email protected].

SECURITY COUNCIL APPROVES PROBE INTO THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR USING CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN SYRIA
10 Aug 2015 News
The United Nations Security Council today gave the greenlight for the establishment of a Joint Investigative Mechanism to identify those responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
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Report: Civilian deaths rise in Sudan's South Kordofan
5 Aug 2015 News
Report by Amnesty International "definitively confirms" war crimes by government forces against civilian populations.
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IRAQ: Islamic State circulates sex slave price list
5 Aug 2015 News
A printed list of prices for buying and selling women and children as slaves from within the Islamic State has been confirmed as genuine by a senior United Nations official.
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INHUMAN SENTENCING: Pakistan hangs Shafqat Hussain despite claim he was a child at time of alleged crime
4 Aug 2015 News
Supporters say Hussain was 14 when he was sentenced to death for the murder of a seven-year-old, after a confession he said was obtained by torture.
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TRANSPARENCY: UN paid millions to Russian aviation firm since learning of sex attack on girl
3 Aug 2015 News
Documents reveal United Nations unit uncovered possible ‘culture of sexual exploitation and abuse’ after 2010 but permitted a Russian aviation company to continue receiving contracts worth millions.
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UNITED STATES: Judge orders release of immigrant children detained
27 Jul 2015 News
A federal judge has said that the government's policy of detaining migrant children and their mothers violates a longstanding ruling that found that such mass detention is against US law.
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UN: Senior UN rights official resigns over Central African Republic sexual abuse
23 Jul 2015 News
The senior UN human rights official who admitted not following up for months on allegations of child sexual abuse by French soldiers in Central African Republic has resigned. The UN confirmed on Wednesday that Flavia Pansieri has left the post of deputy high commissioner for human rights “for health reasons”.
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TRAFFICKING: Young African footballers 'trafficked' to Laos
21 Jul 2015 News
Boys from West Africa as young as 14 have been 'trafficked' to an unregistered football academy in Laos, where they are given no salary and made to sleep in 'deplorable' accommodation. One NGO, Culture Foot Solidaire, estimates that 15,000 teenage footballers are moved out of West Africa every year - many of them illegally. 
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IRAN: Whereabouts of juvenile offender on death row emerge five months after scheduled execution
21 Jul 2015 News
The whereabouts of Saman Naseem, 21, who was sentenced to death in April 2013 for alleged armed activities against the Revolutionary Guards when he was 17 years old, was unknown for five months. Amnesty International has confirmed his location, alongside news that the Supreme Court has granted him a full retrail. 
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HEALTH: Most antipsychotic drugs prescribed to teens without mental health diagnosis, study says
16 Jul 2015 News
Researchers expressed concern about drugs for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia being used on children without these disorders. Also worrying is that few patients undergo therapy alongside their drug treatment. 
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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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