Torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment

ARMED CONFLICT: Ban Ki-moon leaves Israel off list of countries that kill or injure children
9/juin/2015 News
UN secretary general does not include Israel or Hamas but says number of dead and wounded Palestinian children is unacceptable. 
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PAKISTAN : nouveau report de l'exécution de Shafqat Hussain
9/juin/2015 News
La Cour Surpême a repoussé mardi in extremis l'exécution de Shafqat Hussain pour examiner la question de son âge au moment des faits.
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DEATH PENALTY: Rights groups urge Pakistan to call off juvenile execution
8/juin/2015 News
Shafqat Hussain is expected to be hanged on Tuesday for an offence he 'confessed' to committing after nine days of torture.  
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ASIA-PACIFIC: Cost of child maltreatment tops $200 billion annually, reports UNICEF
3/juin/2015 News
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. 
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COMITÉ AFRICAIN D'EXPERTS : le Sénégal viole les droits des enfants talibés
1/juin/2015 News
Le Comité africain d'experts sur les droits et le bien-être de l'enfant a rendu sa décision sur le cas des enfants talibés.
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UNITED STATES: Omar Khadr and the child soldiers of the war on terror
20/Mai/2015 News
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.
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DRUG POLICY: 'Accountability for children and young people at the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs'
19/Mai/2015 Publication
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.    
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VIOLENCE: New global report on prohibiting corporal punishment in schools
18/Mai/2015 Publication
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. 
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State v. Likuwa
mer, 24/03/1999 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning the unconstitutionality of unproportional mandatory minimum sentences in Namibia.
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GUATEMALA: Subcomité de la ONU para la Prevención de la Tortura realizará su primera visita al país
11/Mai/2015 News
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. 
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