Torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment

SINGAPORE: Convicted teenage blogger placed in mental health detention
24/juin/2015 News
Teenage blogger Lee Kuan Yew, who was convicted of obscenity and insulting Christianity after he posted a video criticising the late leader Lee Kuan Yew, will be detained for two weeks in a mental health institute until a psychiatric assessment is performed, a court has decided.   
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Committee Against Torture - 55th Session
lun, 27/07/2015 - 09:00 Event
The 55th Session of the Committee against Torture will take place from 27 July to the 14 August 2015
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VIOLENCE: Gov'ts accused of ‘perpetrating violence against women’
23/juin/2015 News
ActionAid report says officials are ignoring laws to end violence against women, curbing funding of women’s groups, and failing to defend activists. 
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BRAZIL: Organisations call on State to reject bill to lower age of criminal majority
22/juin/2015 News
Statement by civil society organisations calling on the government of Brazil to refrain from adopting the draft constitutional reform bill proposing to lower the age of criminal majority from 18 to 16 years of age.
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Deadline for submissions to the 55th session of the Committee Against Torture
lun, 13/07/2015 - 09:00 Event
The deadline for NGO submissions to the CAT for the 55th session considering state party reports from Iraq, Slovakia and Switzerland is the 13th July 2015
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CANADA : La Commission Vérité et Réconciliation qualifie de "génocide culturel" la scolarisation forcée des enfants aborigènes
15/juin/2015 News
Les Canadiens ont pris conscience du désastre causé par la scolarisation forcée de dizaines de milliers d’Amérindiens et d’Inuits de 1870 à 1970.
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ONU: Rapport du Secrétaire Général sur le sort des enfants en temps de conflit armé
15/juin/2015 Publication
Le rapport du Secrétaire Général de l'ONU sur le sort des enfants en temps de conflit armé est sorti. 
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ONU : Israël ne figure pas sur la ‟liste de la honte”
11/juin/2015 News
Malgré les appels de plusieurs ONG, motivées par le bilan de la guerre à Gaza, Israël, mais aussi le Hamas, ne figurent pas sur la "liste de la honte" de l'ONU, énonçant les entités violant les droits des enfants.  
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PAKISTAN : exécution d'un homme mineur au moment des faits
10/juin/2015 News
Alors que Shafqat Hussain a obtenu un sursis, le Pakistan a exécuté Aftab Bahadur, un autre homme arrêté et torturé à l'âge de 15 ans. Il avait passé 22 ans dans le couloir de la mort.
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CANADA: Forced schooling of aboriginal children was ‘cultural genocide,’ truth commission finds
9/juin/2015 News
The findings are part of a report documenting widespread physical, cultural and sexual abuse at government-sponsored residential schools run mostly by churches that Indian, Inuit and other indigenous children were forced to attend. 
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