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Masinga v. Director of Public Prosecutions and Others
ven, 29/04/2011 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment for a child offender in Swaziland.
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NIGERIA: Seven-year-old girl kills herself and five others in suicide bombing
23/fév/2015 News
Terrorist group Boko Haram has been suspected to be behind the third incident this year in which children have been used to carry out attacks in Nigeria.
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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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JUVENILE JUSTICE: The 'minimum age' debate - separating 'responsibility' from 'criminalisation'
19/fév/2015 Publication
Speech given by Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Independent Expert who led the UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence against...
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JUVENILE JUSTICE: 'It’s not child-friendly to make children criminals'
19/fév/2015 Publication
Speech given by Peter Newell, Coordinator for the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children and member...
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CRIN MONITOR: Children in the Israeli military justice system
27/Jan/2015 Publication
Palestinian children are routinely and systematically subjected to a harsh military justice regime.
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NEW REPORT: Cruel, inhuman and degrading - ending corporal punishment in penal systems for children
19/Jan/2015 Publication
This report documents that 38 States, which include just under 40 per cent of the world’s children, have not fully prohibited the sentencing of children to corporal punishment by their courts and 67 States have not prohibited violent punishment of children in penal institutions. 
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BULGARIE : les enfants sont souvent privés de liberté
13/Jan/2015 News
Un récent rapport a trouvé que les enfants privés de liberté sont exposés à des risques d'abus, à la violence, la discrimination sociale aiguë et le déni de leurs droits civils, politiques, économiques, sociaux et culturels.
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NIGERIA: Two suspected child suicide bombers attack market
12/Jan/2015 News
At least 20 people died in two attacks as violence in Nigeria continues. One of the attackers was believed to be 10 years old. 
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EGYPT: Boy, 16, tried before military court next Monday
9/Jan/2015 News
Geneva-based organisation Alkamara pledges for UN intervention in the case of Seif al-Islam Osama Shousha who was arrested March 2014.  
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