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  2. ‘They’re girls, not wives’: Colombia votes to outlaw child ...

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    Colombia’s congress has voted to change a law that allowed minors to get married with parental consent. The proposal would make the minimum age for marriage 18, and seeks to protect the rights ...

  3. Children's rights in Colombia - Wikipedia

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    Colombia signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989 and later ratified the CRC on September 2, 1990. [1] Internally issues related to children are mostly under the Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar, or the ICBF, which is translated as the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare. The average school-leaving age in Colombia ...

  4. Human rights in Colombia - Wikipedia

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    Up until 2010, Colombia had featured every year for 21 years on the ILO blacklist of countries to be investigated for non-compliance with conventions concerning labour rights. [43] Colombia's removal from the ILO blacklist list in 2010 was cited by Colombian officials as a demonstration that respect for trade unions and for labour rights had ...

  5. Fort Liberty soldier arrested in Colombia is back in U.S. to ...

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    The aggravated assault charges are based on the allegation that he assaulted a child younger than 16 between Aug. 1, 2013, and Feb. 29, 2016, in Fairbanks by "tying her to a pullup bar,” and ...

  6. Truth and reconciliation in Colombia - Wikipedia

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    The human rights violations that Colombia suffers from primarily include forced disappearances, summary execution and torture. The consensus on what is the root of the problem seems to be that Colombian law is not respected, even by those sworn to protect it. Justice was, and to a certain extent still is, in the hands of the individual.

  7. List of international adoption scandals - Wikipedia

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    The European countries included Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark. This was a major human rights violation by the military dictatorship as most of the Korean girls were not real orphans and had living biological parents but were given false papers to show that they were orphans and exported to white parents for money.

  8. We still had questions about DCF oversight of Zoey Felix's ...

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    But first, courts must follow K.S.A. 38-2234, which lays out the process for child in need of care cases and what has to be demonstrated for DCF to take custody of a child and remove them from ...

  9. Álvarez incest case - Wikipedia

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    Alba Nidia grew up poor in their small home in rural central Colombia. [12] [13] [9] Álvarez reportedly taught her to read and write, but neither she nor her children were allowed to attend school. [14] [7] All her children were born at home, [15] and six of them died in childhood, when Álvarez refused to take them to the hospital. [7]