PHOTO: Brazil: In December 2001, a girl, Elaine da Paixao Santos, stands in front of a wall on which she has drawn a heart and the inscription "I love you, mom" in Portuguese, on the grounds of the Mother City Foundation in La Paz, a poor neighbourhood in Salvador, capital of the eastern state of Bahia in Brazil. Elaine lives with her grandmother to avoid the fighting in her parents’ home. (UNICEF/HQ01-0442/Claudio Versiani)
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OMCT. (2003). Rights of the Child in Italy. Geneva, Switzerland: Author.
ISBN: 2-88477-030-5

The report is one of many country analyses that look at law in relation to international commitments and child rights. It explores safeguards against child abuse, or lack thereof, torture, various forms of violence (corporal, mental/psychological …), as well as the situation of children that come in conflict with the law.


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