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Page last updated at 21:45 GMT, Friday, 3 October 2008 22:45 UK

Children's rights 'ignored'

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Britain has been strongly criticised by a United Nations committee for failing to meet international standards on children's rights.

The Committee on the Rights of the Child has called for the abolition of Asbos and for custodial sentences for young offenders to be used only as a last resort.

James Westhead reports.

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