IPJJ Newsletter, Nr. 11, October 2008
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Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice (IPJJ)
Newsletter
Nr. 11, October 2008
Newsletter
Nr. 11, October 2008
In this edition of the Newsletter, the Panel Secretariat encourages all juvenile justice actors to follow-up on the Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
At its 49th Session, which ended in early October, the Committee made recommendations on juvenile justice to Bhutan, Djibouti, and the United Kingdom, covering both children in conflict with the law and child victims and witnesses of crimes. The Concluding Observations included, amongst others, recommendations on the need to reduce the use of detention (and to increase the use of alternative measures), as well as on the need to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility (currently set at 10 years in Bhutan and 8/10 years in the United Kingdom).
Concerns were raised regarding the United Kingdom’s infamous Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) which are civil orders that prohibit any activities and behaviour that are likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress (including children’s gathering), and which may convert into criminal offences in case of their breach, thus contributing to more children entering in contact with the criminal justice system.
The Committee also recommended that Bhutan and Djibouti seek or request technical assistance in the area of juvenile justice from the Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice and its members.
Selected resources:
Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice (IPJJ)
- Extracts from the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Concluding Observations: Technical assistance recommendations referring to the ‘Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice’ (October 2008) (EN)
- 49th Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Information Notes on Juvenile Justice (October 2008) (EN)
*** Request for Information on good practices ***
The writer of the future online training tool on the ”Guidelines on Justice for Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime” is seeking examples of promising practices that provide support for child victims and witnesses, especially those which address the Rights as identified in the Guidelines on Justice for Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime. For more information click here (EN, FR, ES)
Agencia de la Comunidad de Madrid para la Reeducación y Reinserción del Menor Infractor
- Reincidencia Delictiva en Menores Infractores de la Comunidad de Madrid: Evaluación, Características Delictivas y Modelos de Predicción (2008) (ES)
Centre de Criminologie et Sciences Humaines Albi
- Délinquance des mineurs: Enjeux et perspectives pénales, socio-éducatives et thérapeutiques (2008) (FR)
Council of Europe (CoE)
- Maria D. Panforti - Crossing boundaries in the administration of children’s justice (2008) (EN)
- Towards European guidelines on child-friendly justice: identifying core principles and sharing examples of good practice (2008) (EN, FR)
European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI)/Steven Malby (2008)
- Juvenile Justice and the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Criminal Justice Systems (EN)
Jin Chong
- Youth Justice Statistics in New Zealand: 1992 to 2006 (2007) (EN)
lnstitut du Développement Social de Haute-Normandie/Laurent Mucchielli
- Les juges ont-ils «démissionné» ? Repères statistiques sur le traitement judiciaire de la délinquance des mineurs (2008) (FR)
International Juvenile Justice Observatory/Cédric Foussard
- Quand les enfants deviennent adultes (2008) (FR)
International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates (IAYFJM)
- Chronicle: the Voice of the Association (July 2007) (EN)
Penal Reform International
- Digest No.22 (September 2008) (EN)
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
- UNICRI y la justicia penal juvenile (May 2008) (ES)
- Report of Activities 2006-2007 and Work Program 2008-2009 (2008) (EN)
To view the Calendar of events: www.juvenilejusticepanel.org/events/
Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)
- Justice Sector Reform: Applying Human Rights Based Approaches TRAINING: Justice Sector Reform Training Course. Monday 22nd-Friday 26th June 2009, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
- Fourth training of juvenile justice actors on the implementation of alternatives to deprivation of liberty, 11-14 November 2008, Grand Popo, Natitigou and Porto Novo, Benin
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)/Universidad Diego Portales de Chile
- UNICEF and the Diego Portales University of Chile held the XI Course on the Jurisdictional Protection of the Rights of the Child, in Bogota, Colombia, on October 6-10 2008.
The course was targeted towards judges, prosecutors, defenders and lawyers coming from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay, and Peru and enabled the 65 participants to update their knowledge in the field of judicial protection of the rights of children. Participants also shared skills and knowledge to strengthen the implementation of human rights of children in the international judicial system.
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AS AN EXCHANGE OF RESOURCES CAN ONLY SUCCEED WITH YOUR INPUT, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEND US INFORMATION ON JUVENILE JUSTICE ISSUES (reports, events, best practices, lessons learned, etc).
Yours sincerely,
The Newsletter Team
About the Newsletter:
Editorial in English: Anna Volz, Interim Secretariat Coordinator, IPJJ
Editorial in French: Marie Abeng, Communications Assistant, IPJJ
Translation into Spanish: Vera Winkelried
Please send us your comments to: newsletter@juvenilejusticepanel.org
Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice, Secretariat, 1, rue de Varembé, CP 88, CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland, Tel: +41 (0) 22 734 05 58, Fax: +41 (0) 22 740 11 45
The Panel would like to thank Terre des hommes – aide à l’enfance for financing the translation of this Newsletter.
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