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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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ARMED CONFLICT: Ban Ki-moon leaves Israel off list of countries that kill or injure children
9 Jun 2015 News
UN secretary general does not include Israel or Hamas but says number of dead and wounded Palestinian children is unacceptable. 
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TRANSPARENCY: UN chief orders review of handling of claims of child abuse by French soldiers
3 Jun 2015 News
Ban Ki-moon announced the establishment of an external independent review to examine the UN's handling of allegations of child sexual abuse in the Central African Republic by French peace-keepers. 
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GUATEMALA: Almost 800 plaintiffs bring billion-dollar lawsuit over deliberate infection of STDs
15 Apr 2015 News
The lawsuit seeks damages for individuals, spouses and children of people deliberately infected with STDs through a secretive and non-consensual US government programme. 
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ISRAEL: UN officials accused of bowing to Israeli pressure over children's rights list
18 Mar 2015 News
UN officials accused of caving in to Israeli pressure to abandon moves to include the state’s armed forces on a UN list of serious violators of children’s rights.
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MODERN SLAVERY: Tamil Nadu’s exploited garment workers need help from British justice
29 Oct 2014 News
Report highlights conditions of modern slavery in Indian mills, and that the abused workers should have recourse to UK courts.
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USA: Huge family detention centre to open in Texas for undocumented migrants
15 Sep 2014 News
Federal officials are due to open a huge family detention centre in southern Texas that will house immigrant adults with children while they await deportation.
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FRANCE: Parisian suburb accused of gender stereotyping over school satchels
2 Sep 2014 News
Row sparked by mayor of a wealthy suburb handing out pink bags for girls and blue for boys for new school year.
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SYRIA: Refugees trigger child labour boom in Turkey
2 Sep 2014 News
Thousands of young refugees are missing out on school to support families left destitute after fleeing the fighting in Syria.
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SYRIA: Up to 186 Kurdish students kidnapped by Isis in northern Syria
27 Jun 2014 News
 Teenagers abducted from bus while travelling from Kobani to Aleppo to take exams.
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