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Children as witnesses
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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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The Optional Protocol to the Convention of the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution & Child Pornography
This report, submitted by Bangladesh National Women Lawyers’ Association (BNWLA), provides supplementary information on Bangladesh's initial report on the implementation of the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornog
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Child soldiers. The shadow of their existence
This report outlines the known problems of child soldiers and the different forms of recruiting. The report zooms in on the Colombia situation and the motives with which Colombian children join these armed groups. Finally there's a list of actions that ca
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The right of children to be heard: Children's right to have their views taken into account and to participate in legal and administrative proceedings
This paper addresses the right of children to be heard in any judicial or administrative proceeding affecting them. It introduces the subject based on examples from the laws and practices of 52 countries around the world. This paper is addressed primarily
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Handbook for Professionals and Policymakers on Justice in Matters Involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime
In its resolution 2005/20 of 22 July 2005, the Economic and Social Council adopted the Guidelines on Justice in Matters involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime. The Guidelines form part of the body of United Nations standards and norms in crime pre
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"Hur många vuxna tror på en unge egentligen???"
A survey conducted among 1761 adolescents on the Swedish social networking website for teenagers 'Lunarstorm' to find out whether they had been exposed to violence at home during childhood, revealed that 15% of the young people questioned had been beaten
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Guidelines on the Protection of Child Victims of Trafficking
These guidelines are based on international human rights instruments and look at the protection of trafficked children from their identification up to their recovery and integration. The aim of these guidelines is to assist governments and State actors, i
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Save the Children (UK) Statement & Recommendations for Protection from Gender-Based Violence (GBV) during Armed Conflict
This is a set of recommendations addressed to agencies, donors, United Nations programmes and Member States.
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CRC Country Briefing- Pre-sessional working group 40th session, 6-10 June 2005. Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Supplementary report to Uganda's 2nd periodic report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child presented by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. The coalition works to end the recruitment and use of boys and girls a
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BSAF’S Alternative Report on the implementation of UNCRC in Bangladesh in1996-2000
The Government of Bangladesh (GoB) was one of the first countries to sign and ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). As a follow-up, the GoB submitted the first report on the situation of children in Bangladesh in the yea
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United Nations Guidelines on Justice in Matters Involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime: Child friendly version
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime created these child-friendly guidelines along with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). They were developed to help make sure that children who have been harmed by crime and children who have seen other
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Child Abuse and Adult Justice- A comparative study of different European Criminal Justice Systems handling of cases concerning Child Sexual Abuse
Child Abuse and Adult Justice- A comparative study of different European Criminal Justice Systems handling of cases concerning Child Sexual Abuse. This report deals with the ways in which the interests of the child as victim and witness in legal proceedin