Contents:

1. Editorial
2. New resources
3. Future events
4. Links
5. New books


1. Editorial:

The Secretariat of the Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice (IPJJ) would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year 2009! We would also like to thank all the Panel members for their good collaboration throughout the year and their dedication to upholding children’s rights in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international norms and standards.

We would also like to take this opportunity to flag the compilation the Panel Secretariat has prepared of all the Committee on the Rights of the Child Concluding Observations made in 2008 that relate to justice for children, including the administration of juvenile justice and the treatment of child victims and witnesses of crimes. The compilation is available in English, French and Spanish and includes recommendations on the following countries: Bhutan, Bulgaria, Djibouti, the Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Georgia, the Republic of Serbia, Sierra Leone, Timor Leste and the United Kingdom.

The Committee, in many of these recommendations, makes direct reference to the Panel and requests State parties to “seek technical assistance and other cooperation from the United Nations Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice, which includes UNODC, UNICEF, OHCHR and NGOs.” We encourage our members to follow-up on the Committee’s Concluding Observations and to coordinate with each other at country level if any action is taken.

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’ 2008 (January 2009) (EN, FR, ES)

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2. Selected new resources on the Panel website:

Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE)/ NSPCC/ INQUEST:

• Government Misses Opportunity to Protect Children in Custody, Press Release (15 December 2008) (EN)

Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR)/ Asia Center for Human Rights (ACHR):

• Situation Report on the Rights of the Child in the DPRK (December 2008) (EN)

Criminal Justice Social Work (CJSW) - Development Centre for Scotland:

        Linda Hutton and Bill White:

• Children and Young People with Harmful, Abusive or Offending Sexual Behaviours: A Review of the Literature (April 2008) (EN)

• Children and Young People with Sexually Harmful Behaviour: Is Age of Onset a Factor? (July 2008) (EN)

• Using Standardised Assessment Tools: Asset in Scotland (October 2008) (EN)

Defence for Children International (DCI):

• From Legislation to Action? Trends in Juvenile Justice Systems Across 15 Countries (2007) (EN)

International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC):

• International Report on Crime Prevention and Community Safety: Trends and Perspectives (2008) (EN, FR, ES)

Save the Children Romania (SC Romania):

• Special Child Protection Measures: Realities and Perspectives (October 2008) (EN)

Red ONGs Infancia y Juventud Chile:

• Rodrigo Sepúlveda, The Penal Law for Children: Police Control over Human Rights (La ley penal para niños y niñas: El control policial sobre los derechos humanos) (December 2008) (ES)

UNODC/ UNICEF:

• Manual for the Measurement of Juvenile Justice Indicators (2008) (now available in Spanish, already available in English and French)

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3. Forthcoming Panel member events:

To view the Calendar of events: www.juvenilejusticepanel.org/events/

DCI Sierra Leone:

• National Conference on Juvenile Justice: A Practical Approach, 19-20 March 2009, Freetown, Sierra Leone

UNICEF Papua New Guinea:

• Justice for children workshop for the Pacific on the theme “Partnerships for the protection of children who come into contact with the law”, 10-12 March 2009, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

UNICEF Iran:

• Juvenile justice training workshop for judges, social workers and lawyers, 2-5 February 2009, Boushehr, Islamic Republic of Iran

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4. New links from our website:

NGOs:

• Institute for Penal Reform, Moldova (in Romana and English)

• Ilegaalkind, The Netherlands (in Dutch only)

• The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa

• YouthBuild U.S.A, United States of America

To view other NGO links, please click here

Academic Institutions:

• Centre for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking, University of Minnesota, United States of America
  

To view other links to academic institutions, please click here

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5. New books on juvenile justice:

Barry Goldson and John Muncie:

• Youth Crime and Juvenile Justice, Sage Publications (January 2009) (EN)

Council of Europe:

• International Justice for Children, Council of Europe Publications (2009) (EN)

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Thank you in advance for sharing with us information on juvenile justice (new reports and publications, best practices and lessons learned, information on future events and links).

Yours sincerely,

The Newsletter Team


About the Newsletter:
Editorial in English: Davinia Ovett, Secretariat Coordinator, IPJJ
Editorial in French: Michaël Milliard, Communications Assistant, IPJJ
Translation into Spanish: Vera Winkelried
Please send us your comments to: newsletter@juvenilejusticepanel.org

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