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Experts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Praise Sweden’s Planned National Strategy on Preventing Violence against Children, Ask about the Use of Isolation and Restraints in Psychiatric Hospitals and the High Youth Crime Rate

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The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the sixth and seventh combined periodic report of Sweden, with Committee Experts praising the planned national strategy on...

“We are erased.”

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Afghan woman and child walking past Taliban soldiers © Credit – EPA-EFE
Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the human rights situation of women and girls has deteriorated, said Ilze Brands Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights during a meeting of the Human Rights Council. The country is witnessing a staggering regression in women and girls’ enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, she added.