Since 2014 British army trainees aged under 18 at the Army Foundation College (AFC) in Harrogate have suffered an ingrained culture of abuse by instructors, as well as endemic bullying among recruits themselves. CRIN’s new chronological report highlights every known account of abuse at AFC between 2014 and 2024 - drawing on official data, national media reports, court judgments and the testimonies of former recruits and their parents.
Read MoreOur new report reveals that veterans aged 16-19 have been three times as likely as same-age civilians from socially deprived backgrounds to end their lives. We look at why early enlistment heightens risk of mental ill-health.
Read MoreRecognising the disproportionate impact of the UK government’s Prevent strategy on how Muslim children and children of Asian ethnicity are able to access their civil and political rights, the The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child have called for an immediate end to the targeting of specific groups of children by counter-terrorism measures.
Read MoreA creative response fusing poetry, animation and sound, to encourage critical thinking about the military recruitment of young people in relation to human rights. Should the armed forces recruit children under the age of 18? You decide...
Read MoreYujin Kim, a member of Youth 4 Climate Action Korea, reflects on the need to treat the climate crisis as urgently as any pandemic, and include young people - who are the biggest stakeholders - in developing an equitable recovery and development policy.
Read MoreTo contain the spread of Covid-19, most countries have introduced curfews for all citizens, but a number of them have only introduced them for certain age groups, including under-18s. Here we review the ethics of age-based curfews and their effectiveness in the fight against the pandemic.
Read MoreCRIN calls for the Philippines to abandon proposals to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility and instead focus on reforms that will effectively address crime.
Read MoreChildren enjoy a vast array of rights, but there’s one set that’s conspicuous by its absence: political rights. Best represented by the right to vote, political rights are a defining characteristic of any democracy, and one of their key purposes is to give voice to all citizens, including those who might otherwise not be heard.
Read MoreChildren enjoy a vast array of rights, but there’s one set that’s conspicuous by its absence: political rights. Best represented by the right to vote, political rights are a defining characteristic of any democracy, and one of their key purposes is to give voice to all citizens, including those who might otherwise not be heard.
Read MoreAn activist lawyer working to advance LGBT rights in Austria brought a series of cases to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to eliminate discriminatory differences in the age sexual of consent for gay and heterosexual couples. After more than a decade of litigation, the offending article of the Penal Code was repealed, paving the way for further advances for LGBT people’s rights in the country.
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