Children Gain Access to International Justice
This week marks a major breakthrough in international justice for children. It is a turning point in a deeply ...
Children's Rights
Investigating crimes against humanity – South Africa’s embrace of universal jurisdiction
"What business is it of the South African authorities when torture on a widespread scale is alleged to have been ...
Geneva II, politicking and possibility for Syria’s invisible 43%
The possibility of peace in Syria may seem more like an international force (pun intended) than a beacon of hope. ...
Children’s Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
On 4 December 2013, Dr Nicolás Espejo-Yaksic, Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, UNICEF consultant in Latin ...
A Form of Child Trafficking in Haiti: The Orphanage Business
In the next few weeks, the Haitian senate will vote, for the first time, on anti-trafficking legislation. The ...
X v Latvia: Creative Harmony, Fortunate Result
In X v Latvia the ECtHR held that a domestic Latvian order requiring the applicant to return her daughter to ...
Corporal Punishment in Namibia Revisited
In the landmark 1991 judgement of the Namibian Supreme Court in Ex Parte: Attorney-General, In Re Corporal ...
Constitutionalising the Violation of the Right of the Girl Child in Nigeria: Exploring Constitutional Safeguards and Pitfalls
The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the highest legislative arm in Nigeria, is on the verge of ...
Mendoza v Argentina: Against the life imprisonment of children
In Mendoza et al. v. Argentina, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ICHR) has determined that life sentences ...
Education suspended, rights infringed
By Jadine Johnson -
On Monday, March 25th, ninety-seven students at Leflore High School in Mobile, Alabama were ...
Parents' sexual orientation and children rights– coming out in Chile and the ICHR: Atala Riffo v Chile
Atala Riffo e hijas vs. Chile, a case in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ICHR) condemned the ...
Parents’ sexual orientation and children rights– coming out in Chile and the ICHR: Atala Riffo v Chile
Atala Riffo e hijas vs. Chile, a case in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ICHR) condemned the ...
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