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.
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.
Although medical associations largely see gun violence as a public health threat, with 10,000 children killed or injured by firearms each year in the US, efforts to address gun violence from a public health standpoint have been met with considerable resistance.
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.
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.
Research conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) found that trans persons face the highest levels of discrimination, harassment and violence amongst LGBT subgroups.