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Highlights

what-we-do17 Feb 2017

The latest global news on children's rights, this week featuring some positive developments in key areas and contexts of children’s access to justice.

JOINT STATEMENT: Child Justice Advocacy Group calls on government of the Philippines to reject MACR reforms

publications13 Jan 2017

The Child Justice Advocacy Group calls on the government of the Philippines to reject proposals to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility

ARGENTINA: Juvenile life sentences breached human rights standards

publications11 Jan 2017

Five Argentinian children were sentenced to life in prison, suffering grievous ill-treatment and incarceration for years before their cases were heard by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

CLIMATE CHANGE: CRIN's submission to the OHCHR

publications23 Dec 2016

CRIN's submission for the report of the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights on climate change and the enjoyment of children's rights.

Research and Monitoring

Looking beyond the headlines

KUWAIT: Inhuman sentencing of children

14 Feb 2017

Since 1 January 2017, children can 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