Romani families in the Craica settlement in the town of Baia Mare, Romania, are at imminent risk of a new forced eviction. On 2 August, approximately 30 families reportedly received orders asking them to leave their houses by 5 August...

Around 37 Roma families in Albania are being threatened with forced eviction as the land they currently inhabit is targeted for redevelopment. The landowner has refused to respect procedures set out in law, and the authorities have...

Hussain al-Hawaj, a 15-year-old boy, was sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Bahraini court on 9 June 2013. He was sentenced for participation in a protest, arson and rioting. He is currently being held in Jaw Prison, a detention...

16 year-old, Ahmed Ismael al’-Akkad, was arrested during government raids on his neighbourhood, al-Midan, in the capital Damascus on 20 November 2012. He has been held incommunicado ever since. he should have been brought before a...

Sivasooriyakumar Sanaraj, a 15-year-old Sri Lankan boy, has been missing since 13 June 2013, amid fears of abduction by unscrupulous individuals with connections to senior police officers. On the morning of 13 June 2013 he left his...

Nine teenagers between the ages of 14 and 19 have been forcibly returned to North Korea where they face being subjected to torture, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and death. The group of nine, namely Young Won, Moon Chul...

An estimated 20 Roma residents including children who have been living in an informal settlement on Paprotna Street, Wroclaw for the past three years, were served with a 14-day eviction notice by the municipality on 7 May 2013. The...

On 15 May 2013, 17-year-old El Hussein Bah was jailed and allegedly tortured in Laayoune Civil Prison, Western Sahara. El Hussein Bah along with five other Saharawis were reportedly arrested in their homes on 9 May 2013, in connection...

Roni Barrios, a 17-year old boy, was brutally murdered with an axe or machete on the night of 16 May 2013, in Aragua state, Venezuela. Since 1998 members of the Barrios family have been murdered in circumstances that suggest police...

Ahmed Ismael al-‘Akkad, a sixteen-year-old Syrian boy has been held in detention since 20 November 2012. He suffers from chronic Asthma and has allegedly been ill-treated and denied medical treatment. The child was arrested when the...

Two teenage boys have been detained without charge under the Public Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu and Kashmir. A third boy detained without charge at the same time has been released for health reasons but may be returned to custody within...

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15-year-old Ebrahim Ahmed Radi al-Moqdad and 16-year-old Jehad Sadeq Aziz Salman were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on 4 April 2013 by The High Criminal Court in Manama, Bahrain. The children were sentenced along with three other...

On 18 March 2013, Alfredo Ruiz Rojas (23) and a teenager were shot and killed in disputed circumstances in the town of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. They were killed by members of the Mexican Army near the Valles Elizondo neighbourhood, on the...

A 15-year-old survivor of rape has been found guilty of “fornication” or sex outside marriage by a juvenile court in the Maldives. She has been sentenced to eight months’ house arrest and 100 lashes. As per the law, the sentence of...

Halting the use of child soldiers in conflicts is just one of a series of compelling reasons for states to adopt a strong Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), Amnesty International said to mark the International Day against the Use of Child...

The EU Delegation in Serbia emphasised the utmost need to avoid creation of segregated resettlement of the Roma communities. On 24 December 2012, the EU Delegation in Serbia made a public statement on their opposition to the...

Mohammad Mohammad ‘Abdulnabi ‘Abdulwasi, a sixteen year old Bahrani child who was held in detention in an adult prison has been released without charge. He was initially transferred from Dry Dock prison, north-eastern Bahrain, to a...

Since June 2011, conflict between the Government of Sudan and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) has been raging in Sudan's Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states. The conflict which commenced following disputed...