Feel like you're living in a warzone?

Date: 23rd February 2011
Category: Equal protection from violence, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

That's the slogan eight young people came up with to support the Scottish Government's domestic abuse advertising campaign.

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Protecting the right of disabled people to independent living

Date: 23rd February 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights is seeking evidence about independent living for disabled people, as guaranteed by Article 19, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

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Partnership Drugs Initiative

Date: 23rd February 2011
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The Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland has announced that its Partnership Drugs Initiative (PDI) is now open for applications. The overall aim of the PDI is to increase the well-being of children and young people affected by drugs and alcohol.

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Girls on the Move

Date: 23rd February 2011
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Youth Scotland has grants of up to £2,000 available for projects and initiatives across Scotland that increase physical activity levels among girls and young women. The funding is available to groups working with girls and young women aged 12 - 18 years who are not currently taking part in physical activity.

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UNICEF UK wants you!

Date: 21st February 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

UNICEF UK is looking for a small group of young people to help inform their policy work on both UK and international issues. To apply, you need to be aged between 10 and 16, passionate about issues like climate change, child poverty and children & young people's rights and willing to commit to being involved for two years.

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Concluding Observations Adopted by the CRC at its 56th Session

Date: 21st February 2011
Category: UK 1st periodic review

The Human Rights Treaty Division has released the following Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child at its 56th session, held in Geneva, from 17 January to 4 February 2011. The Final version of the Observations are provided in the original language of adoption.

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Campaign for Savings Accounts System for Looked After Children

Date: 7th February 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

On January 1st 2011 child trust funds were abolished for all children. For looked after children, this system had provided a savings account and minimum contribution year-on-year to be accessed when becoming an adult and leaving the care system. Action for Children is campaigning for a savings account system to be reinstated.

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Landmark human rights ruling allows asylum mother to remain in UK

Date: 7th February 2011
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

Supreme court says deporting woman who lied on asylum application would infringe rights of her British children. Immigration authorities will have to listen to the views of children whose parents are facing deportation, the supreme court has said, in a landmark human rights ruling on the rights of children born to illegal immigrants.

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Human Rights and Child Poverty

Date: 7th February 2011
Category: Respect for the views of the child, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Mark Kelly is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Rural Childhood, Perth College UHI. He is currently working on an action-based research project promoting Article 12 of the UNCRC. Here Mark gives his comments on human rights and child poverty following a presentation by Sir Al Aynsley-Green, former Children Commissioner for England, at the Westminster Education Forum.

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UN Special Representative on Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises’ Draft Guiding Principles

Date: 7th February 2011
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation

In October 2010, Edinburgh hosted the 10th International Conference of National Human Rights Institutions. At the end of the event, the 'Edinburgh Declaration' was launched to call for action to address the corporate abuse of human rights. As a result, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Professor John Ruggie, proposed draft "Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the United Nations 'Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework".

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