Child friendly justice

UNITED KINGDOM: CRC alternative report on inhuman sentencing of children
30/Jun/2015 Publication
This report was submitted ahead of the the 72nd pre-sessional working group of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child...
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SINGAPORE: Convicted teenage blogger placed in mental health detention
24/Jun/2015 News
Teenage blogger Lee Kuan Yew, who was convicted of obscenity and insulting Christianity after he posted a video criticising the late leader Lee Kuan Yew, will be detained for two weeks in a mental health institute until a psychiatric assessment is performed, a court has decided.   
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BRAZIL: Organisations call on State to reject bill to lower age of criminal majority
22/Jun/2015 News
Statement by civil society organisations calling on the government of Brazil to refrain from adopting the draft constitutional reform bill proposing to lower the age of criminal majority from 18 to 16 years of age.
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DRUG POLICY: 'Accountability for children and young people at the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs'
19/May/2015 Publication
This paper challenges the current framework for evaluating drug policies, and presents one based on the CRC. The three UN drugs conventions currently fail to prescribe any specific measures for children and young people, and only one of these mentions children explicitly.    
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دراسة حالة: تقديم الدعم القانوني والاجتماعي للأطفال اللاجئين في بيت لحم
11/May/2015 Publication
افتتحت مؤسسة شروق، بالتعاون مع الشبكة الدولية لحقوق الطفل (كرين) في أيلول عام 2014 العيادة القانونية في مخيم الدهيشة...
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CASE STUDY: Providing legal and social support to refugee children in Bethlehem
11/May/2015 Publication
In September 2014, Shoruq Organisation, with the support of CRIN, opened a legal clinic in Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the...
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CAMPAIGNING: Joint letter expressing deep concern over Pakistani death row juvenile
8/May/2015 News
CRIN together with other human rights organisations sent a third letter to Pakistan's Federal Minister for Interior to emphasise the need for a fair and transparent inquiry in line with human right standards.
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Submission to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights implications of over-incarceration and overcrowding of prisons
29/Apr/2015 Publication
CRIN has collected worrying evidence that a growing number of States in all regions, far from fulfilling their legal...
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PERU: Poder Judicial busca reducir tasa de reincidencia juvenil
28/Apr/2015 News
El Poder Judicial inauguró un moderno módulo del Servicio de Orientación al Adolescente para la reinserción social del joven infractor sin necesidad de internamiento en un centro cerrado de rehabilitación.
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ITALY: Children's Rights References in the Universal Periodic Review
20/Apr/2015 Publication
A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the second Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National report', the 'Compilation of UN information' and the 'Summary of stakeholder information'. Also included is the final report and the list of accepted and rejected recommendations.
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