Rwanda: UN Body Targets Abuse of Street Children

Nairobi — The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child's call for Rwanda to take "urgent measures" to end abuse of street children should be carried out immediately, Human Rights Watch said today. In observations released on February 13, 2020, the Geneva-based treaty body called for a halt to arbitrary detention of children in transit centers, for investigations into allegations of ill-treatment - including beatings -, and for amendments of the legal framework that regularizes this abuse.

On January 27, Human Rights Watch released a 44-page report, "'As Long as We Live on the Streets, They Will Beat Us': Rwanda's Abusive Detention of Children," documenting the arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of street children, who are held for up to six months at Gikondo Transit Center, in Kigali, the capital.

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