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HOLY SEE: Joint press release by CRIN and OMCT to UN torture committee
2/May/2014 News
Joint press release by CRIN and OMCT ahead of the Holy See's review before the UN Committee against Torture
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Committee against Torture: 52nd Session
Mon, 28/04/2014 - 09:00 Event
The 52nd Session of the Committee against Torture will take place from 28 April - 23 May 2014. States under review: Cyprus, Holy See, Lithuania, Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Thailand, Uruguay, Guinea  
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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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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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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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