Child friendly justice

Masinga v. Director of Public Prosecutions and Others
Fri, 29/04/2011 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment for a child offender in Swaziland.
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IRAN: Illegal execution of juvenile offender
20/Feb/2015 News
Despite the international appeals to halt the execution, Saman Naseem was hanged on Thursday. He was arrested in 2011 at the age of 17 years.
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JUVENILE JUSTICE: The 'minimum age' debate - separating 'responsibility' from 'criminalisation'
19/Feb/2015 Publication
Speech given by Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Independent Expert who led the UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence against...
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JUVENILE JUSTICE: 'It’s not child-friendly to make children criminals'
19/Feb/2015 Publication
Speech given by Peter Newell, Coordinator for the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children and member...
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AUSTRALIA: 'The Forgotten Children - national inquiry into children in immigration detention'
13/Feb/2015 Publication
This report by the Australian Human Rights Commission shows evidence of how immigration detention is harming children's mental and physical health. 
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إيران: أوقفوا إعدام الصبي المذنب
11/Feb/2015 News
كان عمرنسيم 17 عاما لدى اعتقاله في 2011. وكانت المحكمة العليا ألغت في البداية حكما بالإعدام صادر من محكمة أدنى في أغسطس/آب 2012، مشيرة إلى أنه كان تحت 18 عاما وقت اعتقاله ولكنها عادت وأكدت في نهاية المطاف حكم الإعدام.
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IRAN: Halt execution of child offender
10/Feb/2015 News
The imminent execution of Saman Nasim, who was arrested in 2011 at the age of 17 for armed activities, has been scheduled for 19 February 2015. Despite a ban on the execution of child offenders in international law, Iran has executed 31 child offenders since 2010.  
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CRIN MONITOR: Children in the Israeli military justice system
27/Jan/2015 Publication
Palestinian children are routinely and systematically subjected to a harsh military justice regime.
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NEW REPORT: Cruel, inhuman and degrading - ending corporal punishment in penal systems for children
19/Jan/2015 Publication
This report documents that 38 States, which include just under 40 per cent of the world’s children, have not fully prohibited the sentencing of children to corporal punishment by their courts and 67 States have not prohibited violent punishment of children in penal institutions. 
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CANADA: Report on murdered and missing indigenous women in British Columbia
14/Jan/2015 News
Findings show that while indigenous women are significantly over-represented as victims, the police have failed to adequately prevent and protect indigenous women and girls from killings, disappearances and extreme forms of violence.
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