IPJJ Newsletter, Nr. 5, April 2008
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Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice (IPJJ)
Newsletter
Newsletter
Nr. 5, April 2008
Contents:
1. Editorial
2. New resources
3. Future events
4. Links
1. Editorial:
At the 17th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), that took place in Vienna from 14-18 April 2008, the Panel undertook a number of activities to remind Member States of their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other norms and standards relating to juvenile justice.
On 17 April, the Panel Secretariat, in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Defence for Children International (DCI) – The Netherlands, the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) and Penal Reform International (PRI), organised a side-event on “Strategies to address Violence against Children in Conflict with the Law”. The side-event attracted over fifty participants and was an opportunity for Panel member to share advocacy, legal and policy strategies to address violence against children in the justice system as a follow-up to the United Nations Study on Violence against Children (UN Study).
An oral statement signed by eight Panel members was also delivered to the Commission on the same day, recalling ECOSOC resolution 2007/23 and reiterating the resolution’s invitation to Member States to adopt comprehensive national action plans on crime prevention and child justice reform containing, in particular, specific targets with regard to reducing the pre-trial detention and imprisonment of children, via diversion, restorative justice and alternatives to imprisonment and ensuring that proper detention conditions prevail. The statement also raised concerns about the estimated 1.1 million children deprived of their liberty worldwide and reminded Member States to implement all of the recommendations relating to children in conflict with the law in the UN Study.
- Report of the Panel side-event on “Strategies to address Violence against Children in Conflict with the Law” (April 2008) (EN)
- Oral statement on behalf of eight members of the Panel delivered at the 17th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) (April 2008) (EN)
2. Selected new resources on the Panel website:
African Child Policy Forum (ACPF)/ UNICEF
- Harmonising Laws in Eastern and Southern Africa (2007) (EN)
- Teresa Cunningham, Pre-court Diversion in the Northern Territory: Impact on Juvenile Re-offending (2007) (EN)
- Jacqui Gallinetti and Daksha Kassan, A Baseline Study of Children in the Criminal Justice System in 3 Magisterial Districts (2007) (EN)
- Lukas Muntingh, A Quantitative Overview of Children in the Criminal Justice System (2007) (EN)
- Sarah Thomas de Benítez, State of the World Street’s Children: Violence (2007) (EN)
- Palestinian Child Prisoners 2007 (2008) (EN)
- Making Children's Rights Work in North Africa: Country Profiles on Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia (2007) (EN, Arabic)
- The Juvenile Justice System in Peru (2007) (ES)
- The Ibero-American Convention on Young People’s Rights (2008) (ES)
- Oliver Robertson, Children Imprisoned by Circumstance (2008) (EN)
- Learning from the Caribbean and Central America Program: Juvenile Justice in Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua & Guatemala (2007) (EN)
- Methodological Guide on Diversion (2008) (ES)
- Criminal Justice Assessment Toolkit, Cross-cutting issues, Juvenile Justice (2008) (an interactive programme for assistance in the writing of reports is now available on CD-Rom) (EN)
3. Forthcoming Panel member events:
To view the Calendar of events: www.juvenilejusticepanel.org/events/
UNICEF - Iran/ Police Forces of Islamic Republic of Iran
- Police “training of trainers” workshop on juvenile justice principles and best practices, 26-29 May 2008, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
4. New links from our website:
Academic Institutions:
Intergovernmental/Governmental websites:
NGOs:
- The African Child Policy Forum / The African Child Information Hub (optimized with internet Explorer)
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: Davinia Ovett, Secretariat Coordinator, IPJJ
Editorial in French: Evelyne Monnay, Communications Assistant, IPJJ
Translation into Spanish: Vera Winkelried
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