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Highlights

publications15 Oct 2018

Children's rights to live, learn and grow are violated daily by toxic substances – especially in the air, water, soil, and consumer products. This briefing outlines the causes and extent of the problem, and proposes an approach towards effective remedy and prevention.

Sotto: You are wildly wrong on criminalising children

news-archive25 Sep 2018

Vicente Sotto III has cited our research on the minimum age of criminal responsibility to support his reforms that would lower this age in his country, but allowing younger children to be held criminally responsible ignores evidence of what effectively reduces crime among children.

Best interests and the prohibition of violence: FGM and non-refoulement before the CRC

publications20 Sep 2018

The Committee on the Rights of the Child published its first views under the third Optional Protocol to the CRC this year. Learn more about the decision and its importance.

Nepal banned toxic children’s toys - is it now planning to bring them back?

news-archive18 Sep 2018

After an NGO helped convince the government to enact safety standards, Nepal‘s leaders are now planning to weaken regulations on how much toxic material is allowed in children’s toys. What caused this U-turn?

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