Articles Tagged: HumanRights
UK coming under pressure to ban smacking
By Jenny Cornish, Apr 26, 2010
The Council of Europe is putting increasing pressure on the UK to ban all smacking and corporal punishment of children, it ...
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Court allows parents to have 11-year-old sterilised
By Jenny Cornish, Mar 14, 2010
An Australian court has given a couple permission to go ahead with a hysterectomy for their 11-year-old daughter. The ...
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Should a prisoner be allowed to become a father from behind bars?
By Jenny Cornish, Mar 6, 2010
A prisoner who has 25 years left to serve in jail for drug trafficking is attempting to become a father. Scott Hurford, ...
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Pregnant woman "asked for all-white doctors" in the delivery room
By Jenny Cornish, Oct 29, 2009
A woman who was about to give birth allegedly asked for all-white medical staff to be in the delivery room. The mother, who ...
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