Youth Justice Standards Consultation

Date: 10th December 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

Closing date: 23rd January 2020

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Call for children's inputs to new General Comment on peaceful assembly

Date: 10th December 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Freedom of association and peaceful assembly

The UN Human Rights Committee seeks children’s views in the development of a new General Comment on the right to peaceful assembly.

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UK urged to sign the Optional Protocol on a Communications Procedure

Date: 10th December 2019
Category: UNCRC Optional Protocols and General Comments, Optional protocol on a communications procedure

Child Rights Connect, together with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children have sent letters to the countries who have still not ratified all Optional Protocols to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), including the UK.

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PISA test results: UK pupils’ performance and life satisfaction

Date: 10th December 2019
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

The results of the 2018 PISA data collection, released earlier this month, revealed UK’s improved ranking in maths, science, and reading, while the UK was among the lowest ranked in pupils’ life satisfaction.

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Equal Protection: duty to raise awareness on abolition of the defence of reasonable chastisement comes into force

Date: 10th December 2019
Category: Equal protection from violence

The duty on Scottish Ministers came into force on 8th November 2019.

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Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019: two sections now in force

Date: 10th December 2019
Category: Age of criminal responsibility

New regulations have brought Sections 3 (no referral of child under 12 to children’s hearing on offence ground) and 27 (provision of information to persons affected by child’s behaviour) of the Act into force.

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Together joins Human Rights Day letter to party leaders

Date: 10th December 2019
Category:

The letter has been sent to all party leaders in the UK, on the occasion of Human Rights Day - 10th December, calling on them to commit to safeguarding universal human rights. It has been prepared by the British Institute of Human Rights and signed by over 100 civil society groups.

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Together supports alternative manifesto for next UK Government

Date: 9th December 2019
Category:

A partnership of 17 children’s organisations led by Children in Scotland has launched an alternative Manifesto detailing actions that should be taken by the new UK Government to transform children’s lives.

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Scottish Government commits to full and direct incorporation of the UNCRC “in every case possible”

Date: 9th December 2019
Category: General measures of implementation, Incorporation

The Deputy First Minister has announced that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) will be incorporated in Scots law “in full and directly –using the language of the Convention –in every case possible”, while the “only limitation will be the limit of the powers of the [Scottish] Parliament”.

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MSPs support general principles of FGM protection legislation

Date: 9th December 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Equal protection from violence

The Equalities and Human Rights Committee has voted to endorse the general principles of the Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) Bill at Stage One, and made a number of recommendations.

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