Mental health

RIGHT TO HEALTH: CRIN's submission for OHCHR's report on the Sustainable Development Goals

lratledge — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:23:11 +0000

This submission was made to provide input the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the highest attainable standard of physical and menal health in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It focuses on the best practices, challenges and obstacles to the effective implementation of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on how they apply to children.

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CHILDREN IN INSTITUTIONS: CRIN's submission for the draft General Comment of the CRPD on article 19

jthomas — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 15:01:35 +0000

CRIN's submission on the proposed draft general comment No. 5 by the UN Committee on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD), on article 19 of the Convention.

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CRIN Submission on mental health and human rights

Robin — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 09:53:02 +0000

This submission is CRIN's contribution to an OHCHR call for input on the issue of mental health and human rights for an upcoming report in 2017. This submission highlights areas of children’s rights in relation to mental health which are not adequately covered by existing human rights mechanisms. These include issues which have specific age-related dimensions, issues that affect children uniquely because of their developmental status, and those that affect specific groups of children.

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PERU: Abortion guidelines established after 90-year delay

Victor — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:09:04 +0000

A 13-year-old girl who became pregnant after being raped was denied a legal abortion, even though her physical and mental health were in danger. She was left paralysed; but thanks to her case, Peru now has a protocol on therapeutic abortion and the UN has recognised the denial of a legal abortion as a form of discrimination against women.

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K.L. v. Peru

Zizipho Zondani — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:38:13 +0000

Case concerning access to therapeutic abortion for a 17-year-old girl in Peru.

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UN: Children's rights and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Victor — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 18:54:10 +0000

Ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, this new report calls on the UN to address the rights of children with disabilities with the same consistency and rigour as adults’ rights.

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HEALTH: Most antipsychotic drugs prescribed to teens without mental health diagnosis, study says

Victor — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:44:45 +0000

Researchers expressed concern about drugs for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia being used on children without these disorders. Also worrying is that few patients undergo therapy alongside their drug treatment.

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SINGAPORE: Court frees teen blogger, Amos Yee, after four-week sentence

Victor — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 15:04:41 +0000

Yee, who was convicted of wounding religious sentiment and of uploading an obscene image with the faces of Singapore's founding father and Margaret Thatcher, says he intends to appeal his conviction and sentence.

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SINGAPORE: Convicted teenage blogger placed in mental health detention

Victor — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:24:00 +0000

Teenage blogger Lee Kuan Yew, who was convicted of obscenity and insulting Christianity after he posted a video criticising the late leader Lee Kuan Yew, will be detained for two weeks in a mental health institute until a psychiatric assessment is performed, a court has decided.

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ÉTATS-UNIS : trois fois plus de suicides chez les enfants noirs que chez les blancs

Louise — Thu, 21 May 2015 23:00:00 +0000

D'après une étude publiée par une association médicale américaine, le taux de suicide des 5-11 ans noirs américains serait plus de trois fois plus élevé que celui des enfants blancs.

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ÉDITORIAL : Les droits de l'enfant et la prescription abusive de médicaments

Louise — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:47:23 +0000

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Centre for Legal Resources on behalf of Valentin Campeanu v. Romania

Denitsa — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:14:33 +0000

Case concerning access to justice for a violation of the right to life of a teenager in Romania.

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GAZA: Hundreds of thousands of children shell-shocked after the war in Gaza

jonas — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:41:19 +0000

Treatment is needed for 35 to 40 percent of Gaza’s million children who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder after the 50-day conflict.

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AUSTRALIA: Baby Ferouz and the children kept behind bars

Joe Sandler Clarke — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:59:21 +0000

Born in Brisbane to asylum seeker parents in November 2013, baby Ferouz has spent his life moving from detention centre to detention centre. In October 2014, a federal court judge ruled that both he and his family had no right to stay in Australia. Lawyers for Ferouz and other Australian-born babies of people seeking asylum challenged the government's plan to send them to a notorious detention centre, thousands of miles from the mainland.

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DERECHO A LA INFORMACIÓN: 'Acceso denegado - Protejamos los derechos desbloqueando el acceso a la información'

Jesica — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 11:34:45 +0000

[18 de Junio de 2014] - La censura que bloquea el acceso de niños a información sobre sexo, drogas, política y otras cuestiones está haciendo más daño que beneficio, dice la Red Internacional por los Derechos del Niño (CRIN tal sus siglas en inglés) en una nueva publicación.
Educación sexual, sexualidad (particularmente aquella de la comunidad LGBT, mujeres y gente con discapacidad) y drogas son las principales cuestiones sobre las que a los niños se les niega información a diario, de acuerdo a la publicación.

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