Stop Making Children Criminal

This paper aims to provoke a constructive influential debate on juvenile justice, moving beyond proposals to move the minimum age of criminal responsibility up or down by a year or two.

 
Marrying Too Young - End Child Marriage

This report offers findings, analysis and recommendations to end child marriage, including through education.
'I’ve Never Experienced Happiness’: Child Marriage in Malawi
The report documents how child marriage prevents girls and women from participating in all spheres of life and how the practice violates their rights, including the right to education. It is based on in-depth interviews with 80 girls and women in six districts in southern and central Malawi. Interviews were also conducted with government officials, magistrates, child protection workers, police officers in charge of child protection, social welfare officers, traditional and religious leaders, health workers, teachers, legal and women’s rights experts, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations, and donor organizations.
 
The report describes factors contributing to child marriage, the severe consequences of child marriage, the risks that girls face when they resist these marriages, and the abuses they frequently face in marriage. It also examines the absence of protection for victims of child marriage and the many obstacles they face in attempting to obtain redress; as well as shortcomings in existing programs to combat child marriage.
 
The report reviews Malawi's laws and international obligations on child marriage as well as on the right to education and makes concrete recommendations to the Malawi government.
 
Child Marriage: Malawi

The government of Malawi should increase efforts to end widespread child and forced marriage, or risk worsening poverty, illiteracy, and preventable maternal deaths in the country.
According to government statistics, half of the girls in Malawi will be married by their 18th birthday, with some as young as age 9 or 10 being forced to marry. Malawi faces many economic challenges, but the rights of girls and women, including the right to education, should not be sacrificed as a result.

 

 

 

 

 
Charte Sociale Européenne (révisée en 1996)
Comité des droits de l'enfant - Observation générale No.4: La santé et le développement de l'adolescent dans le contexte de la Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant
Convention No.138 sur l’âge minimum de l'admission à l’emploi
Instruments Internationaux – l’âge minimum du mariage

Ce document énumère les instruments internationaux qui se réfèrent à l'âge minimum du mariage et les dispositions pertinentes.

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Instruments Internationaux – L’âge minimum de l’admission à l’emploi

Ce document énumère les instruments internationaux qui se réfèrent à l'âge minimum d'emploi et les dispositions pertinentes.

[ENGLISH] [ESPAÑOL]

 
Instruments Internationaux - l'âge minimum de la responsabilité pénale
 
Ce document énumère les instruments internationaux qui se réfèrent à l'âge minimum de la responsabilité pénale de leurs dispositions pertinentes -

 

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