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A Child is a Child

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The A Child is A Child project is a Canadian student-led initiative that began in 2008 focused on tackling the execution of children worldwide.[citation needed] The founders of the project - under the influence of Dennis Browne and Andrew Fitzgerald, local lawyers as well as law teachers - were mainly students from St. John's, Newfoundland.[citation needed]

About child executions[edit]

Defined by the United Nations, a child is a person under the age of 18. Despite the fact that multiple countries have signed International Covenants that forbid them to execute anyone who has allegedly committed an offence before the age of 18, they continue to do so.[citation needed] Amnesty International has documented 26 executions of child offenders in Iran since 2005.[citation needed] In many cases, these minors have been imprisoned until the age of 18 and then executed.[citation needed] Saudi Arabia and Somalia also have executed persons for crimes committed as children.[citation needed]

The Conventions[edit]

Article 6 Part (c) – Article 6 of the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights requires that the sentence of death shall not be imposed for crimes committed by persons below eighteen years of age.

Article 37 Part (a) - No child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment without possibility of release shall be imposed for offences committed by persons below eighteen years of age;

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