A municipality must provide basic education for all children living there

Date of article: 14/02/2014

Daily News of: 17/02/2014

Country:  Finland

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Article language: en

Basic education has not been provided for all school-age children, because they are not domiciled in a municipality in Finland. This is in violation of the Constitution and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Deputy-Ombudsman Maija Sakslin points out.

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Unreported violence against women masks true extent of problem

Date of article: 14/02/2014

Daily News of: 14/02/2014

Country:  EUROPE

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Article language: en

Two-thirds of female victims of physical and/or sexual violence did not contact the police or any other service following the most serious incident of violence they had experienced, a survey from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) can reveal. The scale of the problem therefore often remains invisible in official figures, highlighting the need to improve awareness of the issue.

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