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The week in children's rights - 1578
what-we-do18 Apr 2018
The latest global news on children's rights, this week featuring LGBTI rights, refugees and migration, sexual abuse and deprivation of liberty.
REPORT: What Lies Beneath
publications14 Mar 2018
As NGOs, how often do we question whether what we’re doing is what we ought to be doing? In other words, is our work needed and necessary? Here are CRIN's thoughts on this question. 
The UN and humanitarian organisations are failing in their response to the sexual abuse of children
publications5 Mar 2018
CRIN has released a statement on the Annual Day on the Rights of the Child on "Protecting the rights of the child in humanitarian situations".
Realising Rights? The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Court
publications17 Jan 2018
A new report that looks at the ways the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has influenced courts around the world in their treatment of cases concerning abuses of children’s rights.

Research and Monitoring

Looking beyond the headlines
KUWAIT: Inhuman sentencing of children
14 Feb 2017
In March 2017, Kuwait abolished the death penalty and life imprisonment for offences committed while under the age of 18.
 
Discrimination and disenfranchisement: A global report on status offences
20 Apr 2016
Status offences criminalise actions for only certain groups of people, most commonly because of their religion, sexuality or age. This new CRIN report examines how these offences affect children and the new forms they are taking.
 
ZIMBABWE: Inhuman Sentencing of Children
11 Mar 2016
CIVIL SOCIETY UNDER THREAT: Old and new challenges for human and children's rights advocates in Eurasia
11 Dec 2015
MALDIVES: Inhuman sentencing of children
26 Nov 2015
UN: Children's rights and the Human Rights Committee
28 Aug 2015

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Policy and Advocacy

Pushing for real change
SAUDI ARABIA: UPR submission on inhuman sentencing of children
29 Mar 2018
The death penalty, life imprisonment, flogging and amputation remain lawful sentences for children in Saudi Arabia. 
QATAR: CAT submission on inhuman sentencing of children
29 Jan 2018
In Qatar, life imprisonment remains a lawful sentence for offences committed by children. The death penalty and corporal punishment may remain lawful for child offenders under Sharia law.
VOTING: CRIN's submission for OHCHR's study on the human rights of young people
12 Jan 2018
DISCRIMINATION: CRIN's submission on the draft CRPD General Comment on equality
3 Jan 2018
HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: CRIN's submission on the draft guidelines of the Special Rapporteur
13 Nov 2017
RIGHT TO LIFE: CRIN's submission on the draft General Comment of the ICCPR
16 Oct 2017
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Inhuman sentencing
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