Statistics show that failure to prevent violence against children is resulting in serious economic costs to countries, UNICEF warned at the launch of its ‘End Violence against Children’ campaign in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Omar Khadr, the Canadian born ex- Guantanamo detainee has been released on bail. Read CRIN's analysis of the US policy on the detention of child soldiers.
This paper challenges the current framework for evaluating drug policies, and presents one based on the CRC. The three UN drugs conventions currently fail to prescribe any specific measures for children and young people, and only one of these mentions children explicitly.
The report 'Towards non-violent schools - prohibiting all corporal punishment' will be launched at the 6th World Congress on School Violence and Public Policies in Lima, Peru, May 2015.
La delegación, conformada por Felipe Villavicencio Terreros, Roberto Michel Feher Pérez, Enrique Andrés Font y Emilio Ginés Santidrián, extenderá su visita desde el 11 al 20 de mayo del corriente.