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CRAE announces its new Director

11 April 2012

CRAE is pleased to announce the appointment of Paola Uccellari as its new Director.

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6,000 children could lose legal aid

4 March 2012

Next week the House of Lords makes crucial decisions on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, including whether to reject the coalition Government's plans to take away legal aid from 6,000 vulnerable children.

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Children and young people speak to the world

9 February 2012

Watch our new film to find out what children and young people in Austria, England, Estonia, Ireland, Moldova, Romania and Russia want to see happen so they can have more participation and influence in European and international decision-making.

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High court issues damning judgment on ‘widespread unlawful use of restraint’ in child prisons run by G4S and Serco

11 January 2012

In a judgment handed down this afternoon (11 January), a High Court Judge says it is highly likely that large numbers of children were unlawfully restrained in secure training centres (STCs) for at least a decade (1998-2008). Furthermore, none of the statutory agencies charged with monitoring children's care took action to stop the unlawful treatment.

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United Nations adopts communications procedure for children's rights

19 December 2011

The United Nations General Assembly has today (19 December 2011) adopted a third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This will enable children living in member states that ratify the Optional Protocol to bring children's rights complaints to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva (once national mechanisms have been exhausted).

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