Civil and political rights

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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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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YEMEN: Draft law seeks to reform child rights abuses
28/Apr/2014 News
Draft law which proposes to curb the problems of child marriage, FGM, child labour and the use of child soldiers, awaits approval from the country's Parliament.
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TURKEY: Three teens detained for Berkin protest during Children's Day celebration
24/Apr/2014 News
Berkin Elvan was a 15-year-old boy who was shot with a police tear gas canister during last summer's Gezi Park protests and died after 269 days in a coma. 
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European Centre for Law and Justice
24/Apr/2014 Organisation
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IRAN: Four juvenile executions in four days
22/Apr/2014 News
Human rights group says hanging of 16-year-old comes just days after execution of three other juveniles.  
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Calls for information: Safety of journalists and the issue of impunity
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АЗЕРБАЙДЖАН: Наступление на активистов Facebook
17/Apr/2014 News
Многие в Азербайджане лелеяли надежду, что после переизбрания на новый срок в конце 2013 года президент страны Ильхам...
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