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Children as young as nine could be jailed in the Philippines for certain crimes under a proposed law backed by the president, sparking concern today from the United Nations and rights groups. President Rodrigo Dutertes allies have been p
stanley cup ushing to pass laws by December that would restore the death penalty and lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 9. R
stanley cup euters President Rodrigo Dutertes allies have been pushing to pass laws by December that would restore the death penalty and lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 9. Duterte won May elections largely because of a vow to kill tens of thousands of drug dealers, also promising
stanley cup on the campaign trail to close a loophole in the juvenile justice system that he said allowed traffickers to use minors as narcotic couriers. Adult criminals knowingly and purposely make use of youth below 15 years of age to commit crimes, such as drug trafficking, Pantaleon Alvarez, one of the proposed laws main backers, said in an explanatory note. While Duterte wanted the age threshold dropped to 12, his allies went one step further by calling for it to be lowered to nine. The UN childrens agency UNICEF reminded the Philippines of its international obligations. Manila is a state party to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which says criminal responsibility below the age of 12 is not acceptable. Jail is no place for a child. It is alarming for children to be institutionalised sent to a pe Mbkt Thai premier refuses to step down
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will be doing some plain talking when he meets British Prime Minister David Cameron and has a mind to put him straight over the remark that Islamabad was exporting terror. HT Image A senior Pakistani official said that Zardari plans to put him Cameron straight when he meets him at a summit at Chequers Friday. Chequers is the official country residence of the Briti
jordan sh prime minister in Buckinghamshire. David Cameron has been doing some plain talking. Now Zardari will be doing the plain talking. We have to tell him Cameron what the reality is, to educate him about what we have suffered, and that if we are not supported at this time, how things will get worse, The Guardian on Tuesday quoted the official as saying. The official said the Pakistani president would tell Cameron to be more forthright in supporting Pakistani democracy and more careful in what he says, especially in countries like India that are very hostile . During his India visit, Cameron July 28 warned Pakistan against exporting terrorism to India, Afghanistan or anywhere else in the wor
adidas samba og ld. Cameron said: We want to see a strong, stable and democratic Pakistan, but we cannot tolerate in any sense export of terrorism, whether to India, Afghanistan or anywhere in the world. The Pakistani official was of the opinion that the timing of the remark showed how Cameron had been taken in by the Indians. Cameron was
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