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SPAIN: Children must help with housework under proposed new law
30/Apr/2014 News
The bill, currently going through the Spanish parliament, will also require children to 'participate in family life,' and be respectful of their parents and siblings.
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PAKISTAN: Sindh Assembly passes landmark bill prohibiting child marriages
30/Apr/2014 News
Sindh Assembly has become the country’s first elected assembly to have passed a bill on child marriages that places a ban on marriage of children under 18 years.
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KAZAKHSTAN: All orphanages to close down
24/Apr/2014 News
The draft law aims to have children requiring alternative care to living with families, instead of special institutions. 
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ARGENTINA: Teenager who spent nine years locked in a garage rescued
17/Apr/2014 News
A 15-year-old girl has been rescued in Argentina after being nearly starved and beaten in a garage by an adoptive family for nine years.
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CDE : entrée en vigueur du mécanisme de plaintes
15/Apr/2014 News
Le nouveau Protocole facultatif à la Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant (CDE) permet aux enfants de porter plainte directement auprès du Comité des droits de l'enfant de l'ONU en cas de violation de leurs droits.
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COMPLAINTS MECHANISM: OP3 CRC is now in force
14/Apr/2014 News
Children can now lodge complaints with the UN about violations of their rights.
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FRANCE: Unaccompanied Children Detained at Borders
11/Apr/2014 News
As many as 500 children who arrive alone each year in transit zones at the borders detained by authorities, according to Human Rights Watch research.
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Universal Periodic Review - Session 19
Mon, 28/04/2014 - 01:00 Event
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AFGHANISTAN: Children's Rights References in the Universal Periodic Review
1/Apr/2014 Publication
Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the second Universal...
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On the Compliance of Article 155(6) of the Civil Law
Mon, 11/10/2004 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning recognition of paternity in Latvia and discrimination against children born out of wedlock.
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