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SOUTH SUDAN: UNICEF demands action to save children from 'living nightmare'
19/May/2014 News
UN warns that hundreds of thousands of children in the country's most crisis-torn areas are at imminent risk of death and disease, including the threat of cholera.
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NIGERIA: Boko Haram 'to sell' Nigeria girls abducted from Chibok
6/May/2014 News
Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram has threatened to "sell" the hundreds of schoolgirls it abducted three weeks ago.
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MALDIVES: Country should repeal new regulation providing for death penalty, says UN
30/Apr/2014 News
UN voices deep concern about a new regulation that effectively overturns a 60-year moratorium on the use of capital punishment and allows for children as young as seven to be sentenced to death for certain crimes.
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BRUNEI: Tough Islamic penal code introduced
30/Apr/2014 News
Despite the UN voicing "deep concern" about the planned changes, country will introduce law on 1 May, with proposed punishments including the severing of limbs for theft.  
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TRANSPARENCY: Civil society loses as repressive States win election to regulate NGO access to UN
30/Apr/2014 News
Democratic States that value and respect a vibrant civil society should do more to support non-governmental organisations to have their voices heard at the United Nations, the International Service for Human Rights has said.
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SPAIN: Children must help with housework under proposed new law
30/Apr/2014 News
The bill, currently going through the Spanish parliament, will also require children to 'participate in family life,' and be respectful of their parents and siblings.
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OHCHR PRESS BRIEFING NOTES: Egypt, Maldives, Malaysia, South Sudan, India
30/Apr/2014 News
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VIOLENCE: Disabled children suffer alleged four year period of abuse at school, claim parents' group
30/Apr/2014 News
Families have taken legal advice and are pressing for a full, independent investigation into their allegations which, they say, have been covered up by Dundee City Council.
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SOUTH SUDAN: UN says surging violence claimed lives of children, worsened malnutrition among survivors
30/Apr/2014 News
UNICEF warns that the surging violence is exacerbating an already “very dangerous” malnutrition crisis.
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PAKISTAN: Sindh Assembly passes landmark bill prohibiting child marriages
30/Apr/2014 News
Sindh Assembly has become the country’s first elected assembly to have passed a bill on child marriages that places a ban on marriage of children under 18 years.
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