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“Toys are Forbidden in Prison Wards”

NOVEMBER 20 UNIVERSAL CHILDREN’S DAY

“Toys are Forbidden in Prison Wards”

Cansu Şekerci from the CİSST has spoken about children staying in prison with their mothers: “It is forbidden to have toys in wards. Children are away from not only nature and social life but games as well.” Child inmates can also be held together with adults.

20 November 2018 Ayça Söylemez

On Universal Children’s Day, 893 Thousand Children Work in Turkey

On Universal Children’s Day, 893 Thousand Children Work in Turkey

In the 29th year of the adoption of Convention on the Rights of the Child, 15 thousand children die of preventable diseases a day, 155 million children are malnourished and one out of every five children cannot go to school across the world.

20 November 2018

Report: 49 Kids Tortured in Prison, 64 Under Detention in 2014

UNIVERSAL CHILDREN’S DAY

Report: 49 Kids Tortured in Prison, 64 Under Detention in 2014

Turkey’s Human Rights Association released a statement on Universal Children’s Day, underlining the significance of closing juvenile prisons, child labor, child abuse and other right violations.

20 November 2014

55 Child Workers Killed on the Job in 2013

55 Child Workers Killed on the Job in 2013

Istanbul Worker Health and Work Security Assembly released a statement dedicated to Universal Children’s Day (November 20), revealing latest facts about child labor in Turkey.

20 November 2013

About the Difficulty of being a Child in Turkey

20 NOVEMBER UNIVERSAL CHILDERN'S DAY

About the Difficulty of being a Child in Turkey

The first report on the situation of children that compares all 30 member states of the OECD revealed that Turkey ranks in the bottom row regarding health, environment, education and the financial situation of children in Turkey.

21 November 2011