Article 4: Implementation of rights

UNITED STATES: Judge orders release of immigrant children detained

27/Июл/2015 News

A federal judge has said that the government's policy of detaining migrant children and their mothers violates a longstanding ruling that found that such mass detention is against US law.

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FOOT : Trafic de mineurs africains vers le Laos

23/Июл/2015 News

Des jeunes footballeurs africains de 14 ans ont été victimes de trafic vers le Laos où ils vivaient des conditions « déplorables et inquiétantes ». L'Ong Culture Foot Solidaire estime que 15 000 joueurs adolescents sont emmenés hors d'Afrique de l'Ouest chaque année.

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MEXICO: Authorities fail to protect children & adults with disabilities from torture, trafficking & segregation

23/Июл/2015 Publication

This report by Disability Rights International focuses on an institution for children and adults with disabilities where sexual abuse, sterilisation, trafficking, inadequate medical care and degrading living conditions are rampant. Yet authorities allow such a place to continue operating without interference.

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TRAFFICKING: Young African footballers 'trafficked' to Laos

21/Июл/2015 News

Boys from West Africa as young as 14 have been 'trafficked' to an unregistered football academy in Laos, where they are given no salary and made to sleep in 'deplorable' accommodation. One NGO, Culture Foot Solidaire, estimates that 15,000 teenage footballers are moved out of West Africa every year - many of them illegally.

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IRAN: Whereabouts of juvenile offender on death row emerge five months after scheduled execution

21/Июл/2015 News

The whereabouts of Saman Naseem, 21, who was sentenced to death in April 2013 for alleged armed activities against the Revolutionary Guards when he was 17 years old, was unknown for five months. Amnesty International has confirmed his location, alongside news that the Supreme Court has granted him a full retrail.

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SOUTH AFRICA: Teenagers no longer prosecuted for kissing or consensual sex

20/Июл/2015 Publication

A law that criminalised sexual activity between consenting adolescents in South Africa - even for kissing and cuddling - and required them to be put on a sex offenders register was struck down as unconstitutional after a challenge from the Centre for Child Law. CRIN looks at the issue in this case study.

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BRAZIL: Lowering the age of criminal majority, and next steps for opposition movement

15/Июл/2015 News

Guest writer for CRIN, Henrique de Souza, from the Brazilian Bar Association, looks at the recently approved proposal to...

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BUSINESS: Obligations and actions on children's rights and business

14/Июл/2015 Publication

A practical guide for States on how to implement the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment...

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Constitutionality of Article 139 of the Family Code of Russian Federation and Article 47 of the Federal Law “On the Acts of Civil Status” on account of complaint lodged by the citizens G. F. Grubich and T. G. Guschina

вт, 16/06/2015 - 00:00 Case Law

Case concerning the secrecy of adoption in Russia.