CRIN is launching a global research report on life imprisonment as part of the Inhuman Sentencing Campaign that highlights the prevalence and plurality of laws permitting life imprisonment for children.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein presents the annual report on the OHCHR activities to open the Human Rights Council session in Geneva on 3 March 2015.
'This has been a devastating year for those seeking to stand up for human rights and for those caught up in the suffering of war zones. We must hope that, looking backward to 2014 in the years to come, what we lives through will be seen as an ultimate low point from which we rose up and created a better future.'
El reclutamiento en las Fuerzas Armadas de niños y niñas de 16 y 17 años han sido objeto de preocupación por parte del Comité de los Derechos del Niño.