Gang violence

Discrimination and disenfranchisement: A global report on status offences

lratledge — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:07:45 +0000

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.

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RCA : des enfants pris pour cible lors des violences du weekend dernier

Louise — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:56:32 +0000

Des enfants ont été délibérément pris pour cible au cours de la dernière flambée de violences en République centrafricaine qui a causé la mort de plus de trente personnes et fait plus de cent blessés samedi dernier à Bangui.

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BRAZIL: Lowering the age of criminal majority, and next steps for opposition movement

Victor — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:05:37 +0000

Guest writer for CRIN, Henrique de Souza, from the Brazilian Bar Association, looks at the recently approved proposal to lower the minimum age of criminal majority in Brazil, and reviews the next steps for opposition groups.

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BRÉSIL : 28 enfants tués par jour

Louise — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:02:23 +0000

Un rapport de l'Unicef évoque le contraste entre l'actuel débat pour abaisser l'âge de la majorité pénale de 18 à 16 ans, et les 10.500 homicides de mineurs enregistrés en 2013.

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CENTRAL AMERICA: Gang violence fuelling child marriage, researchers say

Victor — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:41:22 +0000

Although there is little data on the impact of gang violence on child marriage, anecdotal evidence shows girls are getting married and coupled with gang members, which they see as a form of protection from gang violence and intimation from other gangs.

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ASIA-PACIFIC: Cost of child maltreatment tops $200 billion annually, reports UNICEF

Victor — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 10:52:29 +0000

Statistics show that failure to prevent violence against children is resulting in serious economic costs to countries, UNICEF warned at the launch of its ‘End Violence against Children’ campaign in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

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El SALVADOR: Maras han provocado la muerte de más de 300 niños y jóvenes este año

jthomas — Thu, 14 May 2015 17:54:44 +0000

Se trata de niños que están siendo utilizados por pandillas como “carne de cañón” para cometer ilícitos.

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الممارسات الضارة على أساس التقاليد والدين والثقافة والخرافة- ملخص

nattallah — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:12:04 +0000

الممارسات الضارة على أساس التقاليد، الدين، الثقافة والخرافة- ملخص

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SOUTH SUDAN: Gunmen kidnap at least 89 boys from village near Malakal

jonas — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:12:04 +0000

UNICEF estimates that at least 12,000 children have been taken or recruited in South Sudan’s civil war for use as soldiers last year.

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NIGERIA: Seven-year-old girl kills herself and five others in suicide bombing

jonas — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:38:18 +0000

Terrorist group Boko Haram has been suspected to be behind the third incident this year in which children have been used to carry out attacks in Nigeria.

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REPORT: African children subject to 'alarming' levels of violence

jonas — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:00:29 +0000

This report by the African Child Policy Forum shows that children across Africa face unacceptably high levels of physical, sexual and emotional violence at home, at school and in the streets.

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MIGRATION: Deported Central American child migrants face death at home

jonas — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:15:36 +0000

Last year, nearly 60 percent of children interviewed by the UNHCR said they had fled abroad because they feared being recruited or faced harm at the hands of armed groups.

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MEXICO: Crecen homicidios de menores

Crintern — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:09:09 +0000

El país es el quinto con más homicidios de menores, sólo por debajo de Nigeria, Brasil, India y la República Democrática del Congo.

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INDIA: 15 year old boy from Dalit minority lynched and burnt alive

CRIN — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:56:17 +0000

Boy from a lower caste was tortured then killed because his goat had strayed onto an upper caste man's field.

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UK: Failures in Rotherham led to sexual abuse of 1,400 children

CRIN — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:21:22 +0000

Report says failings in political and police leadership contributed to gang rape and trafficking in South Yorkshire

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