Summary:

Our research indicates that in Yemen, may be lawfully sentenced to corporal punishment for crimes committed while under the age of 18 and that the death penalty is carried out for child offenders despite a prohibition on such sentences.

This report was submitted ahead of Yemen's review by the Human Rights Committee in March 2012 as part of our campaign against inhuman sentencing of children – defined to include sentences of death, life imprisonment and corporal punishment.

http://www.crin.org/docs/CRIN_ICCPR_Briefing_Yemen_2012-1.pdf

For further information:

• Read about CRIN's inhuman sentencing campaign
• Visit our page on Yemen

Previous Paper (general) items

• 13/02/2012: EUROPE: Explanatory note on the CoE's Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence and explanatory report
• 31/12/2011: UNITED STATES: The Protected Innocence Challenge: State Report Cards on the Legal Framework of Protection for the Nation's Children
• 15/12/2011: HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 2011: Honouring Children's Rights Defenders
• 30/11/2011: UK: Submission by the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England to the Commission on a Bill of Rights
• 15/11/2011: WALES: Consultation on the duty on schools and local authorities to provide auxiliary aids and services for children with disabilities

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Last updated 14/10/2013 15:06:16

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