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Contents:

1. Editorial
2. Future events
3. New resources

1. Editorial:

The Panel Secretariat in collaboration with five Panel members will hold an ancillary meeting in parallel the 12th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice entitled: “A comprehensive approach to juvenile justice reform in accordance with the Committee on the Rights of the Child's General Comment No. 10: promising practices and lessons learned” on 13 April 2010, 12:00-13:00, Bahia Convention Centre, Salvador, Brazil.

Expert speakers, of which Mr. Jean Zermatten, Vice-Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, will discuss how policy-makers and other relevant actors can develop and implement a comprehensive approach to juvenile justice reform, providing concrete examples from Panel member regional programmes in the Middle East and North Africa, the South Caucasus and Latin America. Discussants will also address joint criteria for the design and evaluation of juvenile justice reform programmes.

The event is co-sponsored by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Defence for Children International (DCI), Penal Reform International (PRI), Terre des Hommes International Federation (TDHIF) and the United Nation's Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD) Brazil.

For further information on the Panel's ancillary meeting, please download the flyer.

For further information on the 12th Crime Congress: http://www.crimecongress2010.com.br/

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2. Forthcoming Panel member events:

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

Other ancillary meetings to the 12th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Bahia Convention Centre, Salvador, Brazil, 12-19 April 2010:

The project of restorative juvenile justice in Maranhao (County of São José de Ribamar): the force of community on prevention of crime
Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) Brazil
13 April 2010, 14:30-16:00, Bahia Convention Centre, Salvador, Brazil

Interdisciplinary training programmes in the area of juvenile justice
International Institute for the Rights of the Child (IDE)
14 April 2010, 14:30-16:00, Bahia Convention Centre, Salvador, Brazil

Penal Reform International’s Doing Justice: a Handbook for Law and Policy Makers
Penal Reform International (PRI)
16 April 2010, 16:30-18:00, Bahia Convention Centre, Salvador, Brazil

Parallel events:

Latin American seminar on juvenile justice
(Seminário Latinoamericano sobre Justicia Juvenil)
Associação Nacional dos Centros de Defesa da Criança e do Adolescente (ANCED) / Defence for Children International (DCI) Americas
12-13 April 2010, Portobello Ondina Praia Hotel, Salvador, Brazil

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3. Selected new resources on the Panel website:

(i) Resources on violence against children

Sexual violence in institutions, including in detention facilities
Statement by Manfred Nowak - Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, 13th session of the Human Rights Council, annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child
March 2010 (EN)

Manifestations of sexual violence against boys and girls
Joint statement on behalf of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), Defence for Children International (DCI), ECPAT International, International Catholic Child Bureau (BICE), Terre des Hommes International Federation (TDHIF), Plan International, SOS Kinderdorf, Child Rights Information Network (CRIN), the African Child Policy Forum and the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 13th session of the Human Rights Council, annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child
March 2010 (EN)

(ii) General resources on children in conflict with the law

Justicia para crecer n°14: Society and Juvenile Justice
(Justicia para crecer n°14: Sociedad y justicia juvenil)
Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) / Encuentros Casa de la Juventud
April-September 2009 (ESP)

Children at risk: Exceptional practices of administrations
(Menores en riesgo: prácticas excepcionales de las Administraciones)
SOS Racismo Arrazakeria (Basque)
February 2010 (ESP)

Detention of children in Ireland
Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT)
2009 (EN)

Trial and Error: Children in trouble with the law – A guide for charities and funders
New Philanthropy Capital
February 2010 (EN)

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About the Newsletter:
English edition: Davinia Ovett Bondi, Secretariat Coordinator, IPJJ
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