Article 19: Protection from abuse and neglect

IRELAND: Court overturns refusal of allowance for care of autistic boy
3/avr/2014 News
The judge said the Department of Social Protection appeared to have a ‘disdainful mind-set’ to specialist evidence following its refusal to provide a domiciliary care allowance to the mother of a boy with autism, despite specialists' recommendation that he requires special care care. 
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COLOMBIA: Así se fabrican guerrilleros muertos
27/mar/2014 News
El escándalo de las ejecuciones extrajudiciales en Colombia y un negocio siniestro dentro del Ejército: los falsos positivos que consisten en secuestrar a jóvenes para asesinarlos, luego vestirlos como guerrilleros y así cobrar recompensas secretas del Gobierno de Álvaro Uribe. 
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COLOMBIA: As peace talks continue, so do human rights abuses and recruitment of children - UN
27/mar/2014 News
The UN warns that recruitment of children by Colombia’s two main rebel groups continues. Meanwhile the killing of innocent people allegedly at the hands of the army continue to be recorded. 
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HOLY SEE: Pope adds former child victim to new commission on sex abuse cases
26/mar/2014 News
A new commission that will advise Pope Francis on sex abuse policy within the church includes an Irish psychiatrist who was assaulted by a chaplain when she was 13 years old. But it remains unclear if the commission will deal with the critical issue of disciplining bishops who cover up for abusers. 
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COLOMBIA: NGOs sound alarm on Colombia's child victims of sexual violence and forced prostitution
20/mar/2014 News
[14 March 2014] - Nearly 50,000 Colombian children, most of them girls, were raped and or sexually abused by warring...
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COLOMBIA: NGOs sound alarm on Colombia's child victims of sexual violence and forced prostitution
20/mar/2014 News
[14 March 2014] - Nearly 50,000 Colombian children, most of them girls, were raped and or sexually abused by warring...
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MALTA: Lawmakers prohibit all corporal punishment
18/mar/2014 News
Malta has become the 37th State worldwide and the 25th in Europe to have achieved full prohibition.   
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CAR: The Central African Republic has become a nightmare for Muslims
18/mar/2014 News
[16 March 2014] - Halima, a 25-year-old Muslim, could not hold back tears when we met again recently in Bossemptele, about...
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SEXUAL VIOLENCE: UN, African Union sign landmark agreement to curb sexual violence in African countries
4/mar/2014 News
The United Nations and the African Union (AU) affirmed their common commitment “to put an end to history’s oldest and least condemned crime” by signing landmark agreement on the prevention of and response to conflict-related sexual violence in Africa, a senior UN official today said.
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