Iraq: Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

This submission focuses on ill-treatment in government-run detention centers, corporal punishment, the right to education, unregistered marriages, and the repatriation and reintegration of Iraqi children detained in northeast Syria.

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Iranian students protest at the University of Tehran during a demonstration driven by anger over economic problems, in the capital Tehran on December 30, 2017.

Iranian authorities ignore or punish peaceful dissent and have launched a sustained crackdown on civil society, from labor activists, lawyers and human rights defenders to journalists and even former senior political leaders.  Follow our blog which will document official repression and civil society activists’ attempts to push for respect for human rights during this tumultuous period.

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