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The Government’s policy is to not recruit children under 18

It is little wonder in view of such incidents that both Médecins Sans Frontières and UNICEF have recently said that the number of children suffering from stress disorder has greatly increased.41 Colonel Desmond Travers, a member of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (whose report is generally known as the “Goldstone Report”) said in a recent interview: “If the British had behaved toward children who threw stones at them in the manner that is the norm

In closing, as noted during the statement delivered by the State of Kuwait on behalf of the Arab Group during the recent Security Council debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, which was held on 14 April 2010, I wish to reiterate that Israel’s illegal practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory reveal the height of impunity and hypocrisy by the occupying Power, which, as illustrated by the recent military order and other colonization practices, is clearly seeking to displace

Other achievements under the Convention have included the adoption of Act No. 29478, which deals with the provision of facilities to enable persons with disabilities to vote; Act No. 29524 on Deafblind Persons, which recognizes deafblindness as a single disability; Administrative Decision No. 0269-2009 of the National Identity and Civil Status Registry (RENIEC), which establishes that national identity documents are to be issued free of charge to persons with disabilities and

It is alleged that both the PRRA officer and the IRB member who denied the refugee status application erred at law

(b) Proposing that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict participate in the next meeting of the Committee and coordinate with the Monitoring Group on Somalia with a view to exchanging information with members

The main objectives of the programme are (a) to empower children through crime prevention initiatives and the implementation of diversion mechanisms that enable the successful reintegration of child offenders in the community; and (b)

In order to further consolidate peace and stability, including addressing the presence of FDLR in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a number of non-military measures will be taken, such as assisting the Governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda to define an end-state for resolving issues related to FDLR; encouraging Member States to take the necessary legal actions against members of the group’s leadership who reside in their countries; enhancing disarmament, demobilization, repatriation, reinsertion and resettlement efforts, including sensitization through information campaigns, and exploring ways to further attract the voluntary return of FDLR combatants and promote the durable socio-economic integration of the non-génocidaire FDLR rank and file; and supporting the

This, along with other examples of the ways in which

The in-depth review of the results and strategies outlined in the MTSP and

In Vanuatu, a child under the age of 10 years is recognized as incapable of committing a criminal offence and a child of 10 years of age or over but under 14 years of age is also presumed to be

Progress can be seen through: (a) increased adoption and use of strong, rights-based frameworks for development of policy and programmes in early childhood; (b) increased public and professional awareness of the importance of rights in early childhood and of the responsibilities of care providers, as well as young children’s own growing understanding of their rights and responsibilities; and (c) evidence from