Kluiverth Roa was injured during a confrontation between police and protesters in the city, and died on the way to the hospital, according to local human rights workers.
'This has been a devastating year for those seeking to stand up for human rights and for those caught up in the suffering of war zones. We must hope that, looking backward to 2014 in the years to come, what we lives through will be seen as an ultimate low point from which we rose up and created a better future.'
The deputy principal of an Anatolian high school suggested that “male students could follow girls who wear short skirts to make them feel uncomfortable, after which the students would eventually have to dress ‘properly.’”
Girls advocating for gender equality in education have been increasingly the target of violence such as killings and abductions over the last five years, research evidence from over 70 countries shows.
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.