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USA: Nine-year-old accidentally shoots and kills gun instructor
29 Aug 2014 News
Latest incident of gun violence leads to calls to review policies regarding children and automatic weapons.
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NIGERIA: Kidnapped schoolgirls 'forced to marry captors'
1 May 2014 News
The girls are reportedly being paid £7 to marry Boko Haram militants. 
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GERMANY: Government to allow for third gender on birth certificates
22 Aug 2013 News
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CHILD MARRIAGE: Girls escape forced marriage by hiding spoons in clothing to set off metal detectors at the airport
19 Aug 2013 News
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UK: Gang violence ‘out of control’ in young offenders' prison
11 Jul 2013 News
Summary: Security cameras captured premeditated attacks in Feltham prison - with nearly two recorded every day....
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UK: Legal aid cuts 'put a generation of children in danger'
3 Jun 2013 News
Summary: Lawyers warn it is just a matter of time before they are dealing with a case of murder....
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EGYPT: Young children detained and tortured after protests in Egypt
22 Feb 2013 News
Summary: Hundreds of children – some as young as nine – have been illegally detained and in many cases tortured by the...
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NORTH KOREA: Cannibalism fears amid claims starving people 'eat children and corpses'
28 Jan 2013 News
Summary: The reports come as sanctions against the country are tightened against the backdrop of angry rhetoric over...
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INDIA: Outcry after rape of girl triggers calls for reduction in age of consent
7 Nov 2012 News
Summary: Following the girl's rape, the suggestion that the age of marriage
 should be be lowered to reduce rapes, sparked...
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UNITED KINGDOM: Imprisonment separates around 17,000 children from their mothers every year
18 Sep 2012 News
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