This study focuses on the use of child soldiers during Mozambique`s long civil war and the efforts made to reintegrate former child soldiers since the conclusion of the war.
Child Soldiers provides an overview of the conditions and treatment of the estimated 250,000 children who fight in wars around the world. This thematic page describes the impact soldiering has on children and steps being taken to end this abuse.
This Handbook presents the approved DMH interventions used to provide support both at your Red Cross chapter and on a disaster relief operation (DRO) that spans multiple affected chapters. You will use DMH interventions to support individuals, families, neighborhoods, communities and Red Cross workers across the continuum of disaster preparedness, response and recovery.
The failure of Kyrgyzstan’s government to prevent and punish violence against women and girls leaves them at risk of injury and even death, Human Rights Watch said today, a year after a man murdered a young woman he had kidnapped for forced marriage. Kyrgyzstan adopted a strengthened Family Violence Law in 2017, but weak enforcement of laws on violence against women and girls leaves them in jeopardy.
The mental health effects of children affected by militarized violence are receiving increasing attention as the magnitude of the problem worldwide and its implications is becoming recognized. The trends in child mental health in Sri Lanka related to war and other factors are reviewed, and local project context in Eastern Sri Lanka is described. Since (1995) research and program development in addresses psychological distress in schoolchildren from multiple factors, many directly war related. (17 pages, .pdf fro historical reference)
Women have paid a particularly heavy price throughout the conflict in Casamance between the Senegalese security forces and the MFDC, which has been ongoing since 1982. During this conflict, in which any civilian may be suspected of supporting the other side at any moment, some women have been taken hostage, others have been kidnapped, raped or threatened with rape.
Like all human rights abuses in Burundi, rape has become an entrenched feature of the crisis because the perpetrators – whether government soldiers, members of armed political groups, or private individuals – have largely not been brought to justice.
The most commonly reported form of sexual violence in Burundi is rape, and is committed by both state and non-state actors, including law enforcement officials and military officers. Rape of women and girls is prevalent in the home and in the community and the problem is widespread throughout Burundi. Between 2004 and 2006 an average of 1,346 women a year reported their cases to Médecins sans Frontières (MSF).
Military leaders have fuelled Burundi`s 10 year armed conflict by recruiting and abducting children, destroying their childhood and their future. Children, including children under the age of 15, have been cynically used as a cheap and expendable tool of war.
The European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and its practical arm, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) constitute a unique system on the international level. This Committee of independent experts can at any time go to any country which has ratified the convention and visit any places of detention, such as prisons, police stations or psychiatric hospitals. The CPT then establishes a report with its findings and concrete recommendations aimed at preventing the risks of torture and ill- treatment.
While social protection mechanisms played an important role in the recent reduction of child poverty levels, the country’s fiscal crisis jeopardizes their sustainability. The presidential electoral campaign initiated towards the latter part of 2017 underscores the risk that accompanies the populist trends to Costa Rica´s historical commitment to human rights and equity.
While social protection mechanisms played an important role in the recent reduction of child poverty levels, the country’s fiscal crisis jeopardizes their sustainability. The presidential electoral campaign initiated towards the latter part of 2017 underscores the risk that accompanies the populist trends to Costa Rica´s historical commitment to human rights and equity.
Report Concerning the Application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. OMCT regrets that the Ethiopian authorities have failed to supply information of importance in their report, particularly concerning the de facto ill-treatment or torture of children and de jure protection and penalties applied to officials or agents of the State responsible for violations perpetrated against children, conditions in which children are detained.
A Review of the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Work on Child Rights Governance aims to build societies that fulfil children rights by establishing and strengthening the infrastructure necessary for states to effectively implement the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and other child rights obligations. It seeks to support a vibrant civil society pushing children up the political agenda and holding states to account for what they have or havent done to realise childrens rights.
The aim of the report is to show the difficulties faced by thousands of women in Burundi due to the increase of violence against women. It is based on General Recommendation No19 of the Committee that affirms gender-based violence is a prohibited form of discrimination
Historically, the popular understanding of torture has helped to maintain a gender-biased image of the torture victim: it is the male who pervades the political and public sphere and thus it is the male who is likely to be targeted by state violence and repression.
President Rodrigo Duterte has plunged the Philippines into its worst human rights crisis since the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s and 1980s. His “war on drugs,” launched after he took office in June 2016, has claimed an estimated 12,000 lives of primarily poor urban dwellers, including children.
Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by Nicaragua – Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women – Twenty-fifth session – 2-20 July 2001 (35 pages, .pdf, for historical reference)
Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by Vietnam- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women – 25th session 2-20 – June 2001
Concluding observations
The multidimensional child poverty study, conducted jointly with the Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies (ICEFI), demonstrated the worsening trends since 2006, with 78 per cent of Guatemalan children living in conditions of monetary poverty and/or deprivation of rights (multidimensional). The situation is even worse among indigenous children, with 89.4 per cent of these children living in poverty.
An alternative report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Kenya –
Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the Republic of Paraguay – 28th Session – Geneva, 24 September – 12 October 2001
Report Concerning the Application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Turkey – 27th Session – Geneva, 21 May / 8 June 2001
The Bahrain kingdom, comprising 40 islands and located in the Arabic Gulf, and has significant problems in terms of childrens rights. Freedom of speech, rights to identity and to non-discrimination are not fully respected. Thus, the Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern about the situation of Bahraini children and recommended the country take steps to improve their living conditions.
Report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Spain – 30th Session – Geneva, 20 May – 7 June 2002
Report prepared for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination – 27th session 3-21 June 2002 against Women (50 pages, .pdf, for historical reference)
Gender-based violence (GBV) in various forms is commonplace in Zambia. Demographic Household Survey (DHS) data indicates that from the age of 15 years onwards almost half of all Zambian women have experienced physical violence, and a third had experienced physical violence in the 12 months preceding the survey. This study provides a baseline to measure programme results, impact and long-lasting change at the end of the STOP GBV Programme.
Report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the Czech Republic – 32nd Session – Geneva, 13-31 January 2003
Report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Sudan – 31st Session – Geneva, 18 September – 4 October 2002
Report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the Republic of Haiti – 32nd Session – Geneva, 13-31 January 2003
Report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Ukraine – 31th Session – Geneva, 18 September / 4 october 2002
Report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Pakistan – prepared for the Committee on the Rights of the Child 34th session Geneva, September 2003
Report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Switzerland
Report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Tunisia
Violence against women is rooted in women’s unequal status in society, and that status reflects the unbalanced distribution of social, political, and economic power among women and men in society.
Report prepared for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women – 26th session 14 January – 1 February 2002
Report prepared for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women – 29th session; this report will examine violence against women in France, specifically violence in the family, in the general community, in immigrant communities, and in detention.
Children are particularly at risk of harm and ill-treatment resulting from deprivation of liberty, a situation which is clearly recognized in international standards. This Handbook sets out the relevant provisions of the human rights standards that apply to monitoring places of detention for children, and provides guidance on implementing these in practice. PRI has a long experience in assisting states to implement international standards in the field of penal reform and juvenile justice and is well-placed to provide this expert guidance.
This report is based on research conducted in Angola in November and December 2002. Human Rights Watch conducted interviews in the capital, Luanda, and in the two provinces of Bié and Moxico.
Evacuation of civilian population is not an unusual phenomenon. However the opportunity to study in vivo what are the reactions of the evacuees and how did they coped immediately and in a follow up study is rather scarce. The research was conducted when hostilities broke out in the north of Israel lasting seventeen days and leading to mass evacuation. Hundreds of missiles fell on the settlements; about 150 houses were hit and fifty four residents were injured. As a result of military forecast that retaliation will end up with massive bombardment of the area, a short term evacuation of residents to safer places was decided upon. This research studied the effect of exposure to shelling prior to the evacuation and the effect of evacuation on children in real time, during their stay in an evacuation center.
Recent years have seen a great increase in the number of programmes established to provide psychological help for refugees and victims of wartime violence in both Western and non-Western countries. Such programmes have, in the main, shared the conceptual and theoretical framework developed in Western psychology and psychiatry around issues of trauma and stress.
Over the past five years, Australia has accepted approximately 50 000 individuals through its Humanitarian program. To integrate these individuals specialised medical and psychological services have been established in major centres of Australia.
This document is based on research conducted in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka between January and April 2001. (for historical reference)
Since the 1980s onwards, voluntary repatriation has been promoted by governments, NGOs and UN agencies as the ultimate solution to refugees displacement. Policy makers, donor countries, practitioners and researchers have typically disregarded, or at least overlooked, the meaning of repatriation from the returnees point of view. It is assumed that beyond the technical aspects of repatriation, the return of forced migrants to their country of origin does not raise any particular challenge to those concerned. A returnee is perceived as the reverse condition of a refugee. While refugees are seen as uprooted and displaced, returnees are considered to be naturally re-rooted and placed back in the right order of things.
This study is the outcome of an empirical analysis performed by the psychologist Diana Tudorache based on the psychological counseling provided to the victims of trafficking assisted by the IOM Kosovo Counter-Trafficking return and Re-integration Program from September 2001 to March 2003.
Millions of people around the world have experienced psychological distress caused by exposure to armed conflict. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as it is often called, involves a range of normal responses to events outside the realm of normal human experience.
Report from the seminar “Responses to Human Rights Violations: The Domestic Implementation of the International Right to Reparation for Torture Victims in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal” – held on 14 September 2002 at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
A sourcebook for victims of torture and other violations of human rights and international and international humanitarian law.
Each day disasters occur, and each year millions of people are affected. Whether natural or human-made, the extreme and overwhelming forces of disaster can have far-reaching effects on individual, local community, and national stability.
Proceedings of a joint APT – ACHPR Workshop, Robben Island, South Africa, 12-14 February 2002
Repatriation as a part of reconstructive process in torture survivors (interpersonal and intrapersonal process). Made in collaboration with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
Narrative report from 6th International Conference for Health and Human Rights – held in Cavtat, Croatia 21-24 June 2001.
This underscores why taking active steps to prevent torture and other forms of ill-treatment is so important. It also underscores why torturers must be prosecuted and why the survivors of torture must receive reparation, including compensation for the harms they suffered and access to rehabilitation.
The Guidelines and Measures for the Prohibition and Prevention of Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment in Africa, “Robben Island Guidelines”, were drafted in a workshop convened by the APT and the African Commission in February 2002 on Robben Island, a symbolic place in South Africa where Nelson Mandela and anti-Apartheid activists were detained for years.
The last three years of elected civilian government in Nigeria have witnessed an alarming spate of violence and egregious human rights violations. In over fifty separate and documented incidents, over ten thousand Nigerians have reportedly been victims of extrajudicial executions at an average of over 200 executions perincident.
A report prepared by European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. (2016) The primary purpose of the CPT’s April and July 2016 visits to Greece was to examine the situation of refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants who were held in Reception and Identification Centres (RICs) on the Aegean islands following the entry into force of the European Union-Turkey Statement on 20 March 2016. The visits also examined the particular situation of foreign national children deprived of their liberty in Greece
The Handbook is targeted at groups and individuals working in governement and non-governemental sectors, with some prior knowledge of the Conventions provisions, but who would like to know more. It should be stressed, however, that for legal or other experts on the Convention, the Handbook may not offer much additional information.
Article 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights.
This guide is aimed at helping NGOs to set up and implement a monitoring programme of places of detention. It deals with issues such as obtaining the authorisation of access, establishing the programme of visits, as well as the methodology of visits and the follow-up to the visit. Available in Mongolian, Farsi, Russian and English