Monday, October 10, 2011

UK in 'breach' of UN child rights pact

The UN children's fund has criticised Britain for jailing children allegedly involved in the August riots and warned ministers that they are likely to be in breach of their UN obligations to children's rights.

Unicef said official figures showed that 45 per cent of under-18s detained on charges of rioting and looting during the unrest had no previous criminal history.

The UN body described the UK judiciary's measure as "very worrying", which represented a possible breach of the 1989 UN convention on the rights of a child.  - Al Jazeera English




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