PHOTO: NIGERIA: In 1997 in Nigeria, three boys who used to live on the streets sit together holding mugs at a remand home for young offenders or abandoned children in Lagos, the country’s commercial capital. Some 10,000 children live on the city’s streets. From broken homes or extremely poor families, they often cannot find steady jobs and are at high risk of turning to drugs or becoming involved in crimes or other violence. (UNICEF/ HQ97-1159/Giacomo Pirozzi)
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Independent Expert Activities November 2005

28-30Sub regional Seminar on the implementation of the Committee on the Rights of the Child concluding observations, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Seminar gathered representatives from South American Governments, National Human Rights institutions and civil society entities. Pinheiro coordinates the working group discussing violence. Click here to read Pinheiro’s statement.

11Launching of ECPAT International report on Violence Against Children in Cyberspace, Bangkok, Thailand

The Expert participated in the launching of the ECPAT report on violence in the cyberspace. Prof Pinheiro also prepared the report’s foreword. (to read more about the report click here

2-5Field visit to Haiti

The Independent Expert went to Haiti in a joint mission promoted by the Inter American Commission on Human Rights and the UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean. In his visit the Independent Expert met with local authorities, including the Minister of justice, representatives of UN agencies and of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, local NGOs and children. He also visited the juvenile offender’s centre of Delmas and the city of Ouanaminthe at the border with the Dominican Republic. (read the press release: French version, Spanish version


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