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PAKISTAN: Last-minute stay of execution issued for man sentenced to death aged 14 extended to 30 days
23/mar/2015 News
Following an outcry over the case of Shafqat Hussain, the President of Pakistan has announced the extension of the halt of his execution for 30 days.
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CAMPAIGNING: CRIN's joint letter to Pakistan's Federal Minister for Interior
23/mar/2015 News
Read the letter CRIN, together with other human rights organisations, sent to Pakistan's minister after the halt of Shafqat Hussain's execution for 72 hours and before it's extension to 30 days. 
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Report on the status of the right to education
17/mar/2015 News
Organisations and individuals are invited to submit relevant information for the upcoming report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNICEF.
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CHÂTIMENTS CORPORELS : l'Andorre et le Bénin légifèrent
17/mar/2015 News
Le Bénin et l'Andorre ont interdit toutes formes de châtiments corporels, portant le nombre de pays ayant légiféré dans ce sens à 46.
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CORPORAL PUNISHMENT: Two more states achieve prohibition
16/mar/2015 News
Benin and Andorra have joined the list of now 46 states prohibiting all forms of corporal punishment. Benin is the seventh in Africa and Andorra is the 28th county in Europe.
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NIGERIA: Child brides facing death sentences a decade after child marriage prohibited
11/mar/2015 News
Ten years after underage marriage was prohibited, 39 percent of girls are married before age 15, and two remain on death row for killing much older husbands.      
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PAKISTAN: Man sentenced to death at the age of 16 due to be executed in Karachi
4/mar/2015 News
Muhammad Afzal, who spent 16 years in prison after receiveing his death sentence in 1999 by an anti-terrorism court, will be hanged on 05 March 2015. 
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IRAN: Illegal execution of juvenile offender
20/fév/2015 News
Despite the international appeals to halt the execution, Saman Naseem was hanged on Thursday. He was arrested in 2011 at the age of 17 years.
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إيران: أوقفوا إعدام الصبي المذنب
11/fév/2015 News
كان عمرنسيم 17 عاما لدى اعتقاله في 2011. وكانت المحكمة العليا ألغت في البداية حكما بالإعدام صادر من محكمة أدنى في أغسطس/آب 2012، مشيرة إلى أنه كان تحت 18 عاما وقت اعتقاله ولكنها عادت وأكدت في نهاية المطاف حكم الإعدام.
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IRAN: Halt execution of child offender
10/fév/2015 News
The imminent execution of Saman Nasim, who was arrested in 2011 at the age of 17 for armed activities, has been scheduled for 19 February 2015. Despite a ban on the execution of child offenders in international law, Iran has executed 31 child offenders since 2010.  
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