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Children as witnesses
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Child friendly Court in Zanzibar. Press Release
To end the violence against children and to enable children who are to witness against their perpetrators, a Child-Friendly Court has just been launched by the Government of Zanzibar with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Ag
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Infancia y Justicia: Una cuestión de derechos. Los niños y las niñas ante la administración de justicia española
Infancia y Justicia: Una cuestión de derechos. Los niños y las niñas ante la administración de justicia española (Childhood and Justice: Rights of the child in the course of the administration of juvenile justice in Spain). Whether children come into cont
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Legal Assistance Toolkit for Children and Children's Rights Organisations
This toolkit is designed to explain the ways that legal assistance can be obtained free of charge for children and children's rights organisations, to review the international standards that underlie children's right to legal assistance, and to clarify th
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Psychosocial support for children: Protecting the Rights of child victims and witnesses in transitional justice processes
This paper presents a short overview of the obligations of states under international law to prosecute persons accused of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and enforced disappearances, specifically focusing on crimes against children.
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Children and armed conflict: A guide to International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law
This Guide sets out the standards and principles guaranteeing the most fundamental rights of children in armed conflict. The International Bureau for Children Rights (The Bureau) is committed to the promotion and the protection of the rights of children a
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Annual report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict, 2011
Annual Report by the Special Representative for children and armed conflict to the Human Rights Council, covering the period May 2010- May 2011. The report highlights how children continue to be disproportionately affected by armed conflict and to have th
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Visible, Informed, Strong- Vidljivi, informirani, jaki
The project “Visible, Informed, Strong- Safeguarding Vulnerable Children from Violence in South East Europe“ was implemented during 2008-2011 by Save the Children Norway’s Regional Office for South Eastern Europe with the support of Save the Children Ital
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Testimony without fear (?) Non-revictimization Cultures and Practices: A map of practices for taking special testimony from children and adolescents (1st edition)
International review, comparison, and analysis of child-friendly justice practices in various jurisdictions. The publication Testimony without fear(?): Non-revictimizing cultures and practices, is a framework for the development of specific techniques and
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Utan upprättelse- vem ser barn som bevittnat våld i hemmet?
Children who witness domestic violence are seldom given worthy consideration by the police and they do not get redress for grievances from the authorities. This is how the present report can be summarised. It clearly establishes that the police reports of
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Children and Truth Commissions
Children are often brutally targeted in modern warfare. Accountability mechanisms have begun to focus on crimes committed against children during armed conflict and to involve children proactively, including through testimony that bears witness to their e
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Child victims in the Union- Rights and Empowerment. A report of the CURE project 2009-2010
Child victims in the Union – Rights and Empowerment (CURE) is a project on the current situation of victimised children in the criminal justice systems. CURE has had the ultimate aim to provide recommendations for an improved position of child victims in
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Evitando la revictimización: Desarrollo de la entrevista a niños, niñas y adolescentes
The protection of children and adolescents against suffering during the justice process is a right guaranteed by the international rule approved by the United Nations on the questioning of child and adolescent victims and witnesses of violence and crimes.