Resources
- CRIN website
- UNICEF website
- Coalition to stop the use of child soldiers
- End FGM European Campaign
- Consortium for street children
- Railway children
- CRAE - Children's Rights Alliance for England
- State of Children's Rights in England
- U.S.: The rest of their lives: Life without Parole for Child Offenders
- International Development Committee: Publication of Special Reports "Urbanisation & Poverty"
- "Keeping Children out of Harmful Institutions" report by UNICEF's Better Care Network, Save the Children UK & EveryChild
- Child Soldiers article
- Guatemala: Supreme Court to reopen criminal investigation into street children case
- Uruguay: report of the Special Rapprteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Programming Guidance for children deprived of parental care
- UN Study on violence against children
- 18 Candles: The Convention on the Rights of the Child Reaches Majority (PDF)
- Progress for Children: A World Fit for Children Statistical Review released by UNICEF (PDF)
- Human Rights Watch: "When I die, they'll send me home" - Youth sentenced to life without parole in California
Recent articles and reports
Omar Khadr, child 'enemy combatant' facing US Military Commission
Amnesty recently issued a report entitled USA: In whose best interests? Omar Khadr, child 'enemy combatant' facing military commission, which examines the circumstances of Khadr's capture, his allegations of torture and other ill-treatment and the military commission trial he is now facing.
Omar is a Canadian national and has been in US military detention for over six years, since he was 15 years old. He was held and interrogated in Bagram air base for several months and transferred after his 16th birthday to Guatanamo Bay US Naval Base where he remains. No existing international tribunal has ever prosecuted a child for war crimes and the USA has ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (although they have not ratified the CRC itself). Although Omar is a Canadian national, Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister said in March that it would be "premature" for Canada to discuss Omar Khadr's repatriation.
