Burundi: poverty, isolation and Ill-treatment: juvenile justice in Burundi
Includes particular concerns for refugee and internally displaced children
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Hidden scandal, secret shame: torture and ill-treatment of children
This document draws on many reports of torture of children documented by Amnesty International and other human rights organizations. It includes cases affecting refugee and internally displaced children.
USA: rights for all
Includes concerns over the detention of asylum-seekers, and their treament.
Children’s rights: the future starts here
This document is an overview of the 1959 UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child, and of Amnesty’s work for children, including refugee children.
Panama/Colombia: refugees: the right to escape from death
Since November 1996 hundreds of Colombian refugees have been forcibly deported to Colombia by Panamanian authorities in clear breach of its international human rights obligations.
A stolen future: protecting the rights of refugee children
The failure to protect and assist young refugees adequately is denying them access to a future which might deliver more than their short and traumatic past. Helping them to build a future is not easy but it is possible. Measures which need to be taken to rebuild security and hope have already been identified; they … Continue reading A stolen future: protecting the rights of refugee children
AI Week and International Children’s Day 1997: refugee children: don’t play with my future! appeal cases
This document contains case studies of refugee children and appeals for letter writing.
France: further information on the fatal shooting of child refugee: appeal against ruling that police officer who shot Todor Bogdanovic should not be prosecuted
On 18 September 1997 an appeal court in Aix-en Provence (Chambre d’Accusation de la Cour d’Appel d’Aix-en-Provence) will consider an appeal against a judicial ruling that there were no grounds for prosecution (non-lieu) of a police officer who shot and killed eight-year-old Todor Bogdanovic. The child was a member of a convoy of Roma from … Continue reading France: further information on the fatal shooting of child refugee: appeal against ruling that police officer who shot Todor Bogdanovic should not be prosecuted