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June 14, 2018

Africa: Pregnant Girls, Young Mothers Barred from School

Tens of thousands of pregnant girls and adolescent mothers are banned or discouraged from attending school across Africa. The African Union needs to work closely with all its member countries to ensure that no girl is denied her right to an education because she becomes pregnant.

Children's Rights

June 14, 2018 News Release

Africa: Pregnant Girls, Young Mothers Barred from School
International Justice

October 24, 2016 News Release

South Africa: ICC Move Betrays Victims
Business

February 19, 2010 Commentary

Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous

Christopher Albin-Lackey
Senior Legal Advisor

Published In: Forbes

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June 14, 2018

Leave No Girl Behind in Africa

Discrimination in Education against Pregnant Girls and Adolescent Mothers
December 1, 2003

Policy Paralysis

A Call for Action on HIV/AIDS-Related Human Rights Abuses Against Women and Girls in Africa
April 1, 2003

Borderline Slavery

Child Trafficking In Togo

News

March 2, 2011 Letter

Gabon/Nigeria/South Africa: Reconsider Support for Deferral of ICC Kenya Investigation
February 4, 2010 News Release

US: Adopt Anti-Corruption Proposals
July 30, 2009 Statement

African Civil Society Urges African States Parties to the Rome Statute to Reaffirm Their Commitment to the ICC
March 11, 2008 Letter

Organisation of the Islamic Conference: Improve and Strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism
July 2, 2003 Statement

President Bush's Trip to Africa
June 11, 2003 News Release

U.S. State Department Trafficking Report Undercut by Lack of Analysis
April 1, 2003 News Release

West Africa: Stop Trafficking in Child Labor

Daily Brief

April 7, 2020

Coronavirus is the "new terrorism"; Asia's overcrowded prisons at grave risk of COVID-19 outbreaks; rights risks to older people in coronavirus response; no "social distancing" possible for refugees crammed into camps in Greece; Gulf countries to put a hold on deportations; concerns over South Africa's response; Afghanistan should prosecute head of ISIS-linked group for war crimes; the UN fails to name Russia for bombings in Syria; and is Europe finally seeing some light at the end of the dark pandemic tunnel?