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Highlights

what-we-do20 Jul 2017

The latest global news on children's rights, this week featuring sexual abuse and exploitation, refugees, health and child marriage.

USING THE LAW FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: An introductory guide

legal4 Jul 2017

While many authorities can tolerate some traditional campaigning methods, it is usually harder to ignore the law. As part...

UKRAINE: State had no right to remove children of blind parents

publications28 Jun 2017

Two blind parents argued against the removal of their seven children and claimed that the authorities were obliged to provide financial support to help them, all the way up to the European Court of Human Rights.

GEORGIA: NGOs call for children's rights to be enshrined in new Constitution

news-archive23 Jun 2017

More than 40 civil society groups are calling on the Georgian government to write in explicit protections for children's rights in the country's new Constitution.

Research and Monitoring

Looking beyond the headlines

KUWAIT: Inhuman sentencing of children

14 Feb 2017

On 1 January 2017, legislation came into force that allows children to be lawfully sentenced to death and life imprisonment for crimes committed when they were 16 or older.

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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CHILDREN IN INSTITUTION: CRIN's submission for the draft General Comment of the CRPD on article 19

5 Jul 2017

CRIN's submission on the proposed draft general comment No. 5 by the UN Committee on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD), on article 19 of the Convention.