IPJJ Newsletter, Nr. 16, March 2009
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Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice (IPJJ)
Newsletter
Nr. 16, March 2009
The Panel Secretariat would like to highlight in this edition the various juvenile justice activities undertaken by the Panel and its members during the 10th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council that took place from 2-27 March 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland.
On 10 March 2009 the Panel held a side-event on “Juvenile Justice Challenges: Strategies to address Violence against Children in Contact with the Justice System”. The meeting was attended by over seventy participants and provided governments, advocates and other actors with examples of Panel member legal, policy and advocacy strategies to end violence against children in contact with justice systems, including children in conflict with the law and child victims and witnesses of crimes. A full report of the meeting is available below.
Two Panel members, Defence for Children International (DCI) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), also delivered an oral statement on “Children’s Rights in Juvenile Justice: Time to Bridge the Gap between Rights and Reality” during the discussion on children’s rights. Moreover, on 19 March, DCI and the World Alliance of YMCAs held a side-event on “Education and Psycho-social Support as Tools for the Genuine Reintegration of Children and Youth in Conflict with the Law”.
The Panel Secretariat would also like to take this opportunity to welcome the adoption by the Human Rights Council of its first resolution on “Human rights in the administration of justice, in particular juvenile justice”. The resolution invites States to benefit from technical advice and assistance provided by the Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice and its members (latest version: A/HRC/10/L.15). We encourage our members, once again, to coordinate with each other at country level if such technical advice and assistance is requested.
Below are some selected resources/events on these issues:
Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice (IPJJ):
On 10 March 2009 the Panel held a side-event on “Juvenile Justice Challenges: Strategies to address Violence against Children in Contact with the Justice System”. The meeting was attended by over seventy participants and provided governments, advocates and other actors with examples of Panel member legal, policy and advocacy strategies to end violence against children in contact with justice systems, including children in conflict with the law and child victims and witnesses of crimes. A full report of the meeting is available below.
Two Panel members, Defence for Children International (DCI) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), also delivered an oral statement on “Children’s Rights in Juvenile Justice: Time to Bridge the Gap between Rights and Reality” during the discussion on children’s rights. Moreover, on 19 March, DCI and the World Alliance of YMCAs held a side-event on “Education and Psycho-social Support as Tools for the Genuine Reintegration of Children and Youth in Conflict with the Law”.
The Panel Secretariat would also like to take this opportunity to welcome the adoption by the Human Rights Council of its first resolution on “Human rights in the administration of justice, in particular juvenile justice”. The resolution invites States to benefit from technical advice and assistance provided by the Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice and its members (latest version: A/HRC/10/L.15). We encourage our members, once again, to coordinate with each other at country level if such technical advice and assistance is requested.
Below are some selected resources/events on these issues:
Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice (IPJJ):
- Report of the Panel side-event on “Juvenile Justice Challenges: Strategies to Address Violence against Children in Contact with the Justice System” (March 2009) (EN)
Child Rights Information Network (CRIN):
- Human Rights Council: side-event on Violence and Juvenile Justice (March 2009) (EN)
- Children’s Rights in Juvenile Justice: Time to Bridge the Gap between Rights and Reality (March 2009) (EN, ES)
2. Selected new resources on the Panel website:
ActionAid Bangladesh/ Retired Police Officers Welfare Association Bangladesh (RPOWAB):
- Under-Aged Prison Inmates in Bangladesh: a Sample Situation of Youthful Offenders in Greater Dakha (November 2008) (EN)
- Nigeria: for whom does the executioner come ? (Nigéria: pour qui vient le bourreau ?) (October 2008) (FR)
- Manual for the Measurement of Indicators for Children in Formal Care (January 2009) (EN)
- Child Rights Situation Analysis: Right to Protection in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (December 2008) (EN)
- Protection Centres for Juveniles with Behavioural Problems and in Situations of Social Exclusion (Centros de protección de menores con trastornos de conducta y en situación de dificultad social) (2009) (ES)
- Situation Analysis of Juvenile Violence in Lima and Callao 2007-2008 (Estudio situacional de la violencia juvenil en Lima y Callao 2007-2008) (2008) (ES)
- Justice for Children: Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Practice in Kosovo (July 2008) (EN)
- Guide to Implementing Family Skills Training Programmes for Drug Abuse Prevention (March 2009) (EN, ES)
- Adolescents Deprived of Liberty: Current Conditions, Structural Problems and Recommendations (Adolescentes privados de libertad: condiciones actuales, problemas estructurales y recomendaciones) (December 2008) (ES)
3. Forthcoming Panel member events:
To view the Calendar of events: www.juvenilejusticepanel.org/events/
Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice (IPJJ):- Panel side-event on “Crime Prevention for Children: Recent Developments and Good Practices” at the 18th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), 13:30-14:30, 21 April 2009, Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria
- Panel Annual Meeting, 17-18 May 2009, Amman, Jordan
- Training Workshop on Indicators: Establishing Juvenile Justice Information Systems, using the UNICEF/ UNODC Manual for the Measurement of Juvenile Justice Indicators, 11-14 May 2009, Amman, Jordan
4. New links from our website:
Governmental and intergovernmental:
- Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry for Youth and Families, Ministry of Health, Welfare & Sport, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment/ UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre: International Conference on Violence against the Girl Child, 9-10 March 2009, The Hague, Netherlands (Background Paper)
- Gobierno del Distrito Federal, Secretaría del Gobierno, Subsecretaría de Sistema Penitenciario, Dirección Ejecutiva de Tratamiento a Menores, Mexico (ES): System of Integral Community Care for Adolescents (Atención Comunitaria Integral para Adolescentes)
Professional organisations:
To view other links to professional organisations, please click hereContents
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:English edition: Davinia Ovett, Secretariat Coordinator, IPJJ
French edition: Michaël Milliard, Communications Assistant, IPJJ
Spanish translation: Vera Winkelried
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