In May 2014 the UNCAT reviewed the Holy See, and asked detailed questions about child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Read the “unofficial minutes” produced by the World Organization Against Torture and CRIN.
The United Nations human rights chief today condemned the rampant use of torture, including allegedly of children, in detention facilities across Syria by Government forces and some armed opposition groups.
Le Comité africain d'experts sur les droits de l'enfant ouvre ce lundi 7 avril sa 23è session ordinaire à Addis-Abeba, Ethiopie. Celle-ci durera jusqu'au 16 avril.
The United Nations today launched a new initiative to end the recruitment and use of children in Government forces in conflict by 2016, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressing that children should be armed with pens and textbooks, not guns.
More than 6,000 child soldiers may now be involved in the conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR), with their numbers growing as fighting pits community against community in clashes that have taken on increasingly sectarian overtones, the United Nations reported today.