Michigan’s Senate Judiciary Committee should approve four bills abolishing life sentences without parole for juveniles in the state. The practice is cruel, inappropriate, discriminatory, and a violation of human rights.

Michigan's Senate Judiciary Committee should vote in favor of Senate Bills 6, 9, 28, and 40, which will abolish the sentence of life without parole for juvenile offenders in the state.

The Nepali government should urgently address the widespread torture and ill-treatment of children in police custody.

Iran hanged a juvenile offender on October 30, 2008, the seventh this year, only two days after Iranian authorities "categorically denied" that it still executes juveniles.

Latin American and Caribbean governments should drop their opposition to UN efforts to end executions of juvenile offenders.

As UN member states begin three days of debate on the rights of the child, more than 300 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from 82 countries called on the UN General Assembly to take urgent action to end executions for crimes committed by children.

A recent judicial ban on juvenile executions in Iran should save more than 130 juvenile offenders currently on death row from execution.

Is Saudi Arabia backsliding on human rights, and backtracking on reform, since ‘Abdallah acceded to the throne in August 2005? Evidence collected by Human Rights Watch suggests the answer is yes.