On the Agenda in Algiers: African Children's Rights and Nationality
Laura Bingham
November 23, 2011
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The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) is less than a decade old, it but its first-ever ruling on a complaint affirmed principles that are crucial to eradicating statelessness and minimizing discrimination against vulnerable minorities.


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Julek's Story: Still Waiting for an End to Czech Roma Segregation
Tracey Gurd
November 23, 2011
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Julek was one of 18 children who took the Czech government to the European Court of Human Rights in 1999, challenging the practice of placing disproportionate numbers of Romani children into segregated schools. Twelve years and a landmark legal victory later, he is still waiting for things to change.

Mapping Digital Media: United States
November 2011
This report calls for policies in the United States to promote greater media diversity and protect and promote the public’s voice through the enforcement of open internet rules, the allocation of spectrum to unlicensed and other innovative uses, an expansion of the universal service fund to broadband, and the broadening of entities that can receive it.

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