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Contents:

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


1. Editorial:

In this edition of the newsletter, the Panel Secretariat would like to highlight the Concluding Observations of the 50th Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child that ended last month. In these Concluding Observations the Committee makes strong recommendations relating to justice for children, including the administration of justice and justice in matters involving child victims and witnesses of crimes. The Committee also encourages the governments of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, the Republic of Moldova and the Republic of Chad to seek technical assistance in juvenile justice from the Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice and its members. Once again, we encourage our members to follow-up on the Committee’s recommendations and to coordinate with each other at country level if any action is taken.

We would also like to flag that at the 10th session of the Human Rights Council, from 2-27 March 2009, the Panel is organizing a side-event on “Juvenile Justice Challenges: Strategies to address Violence against Children in Contact with the Justice System”. The event aims to provide governments, advocates and other actors with examples of advocacy, policy and legal reform strategies to address violence against children that come into contact with justice systems. The event is co-sponsored by  six members of the Panel: the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Defence for Children International (DCI), Penal Reform International (PRI), Save the Children UK and Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh).

Below are selected resources/events on these issues:

Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice (IPJJ):

• Extracts from the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Concluding Observations, 50th Session: Technical assistance recommendations referring to the ‘Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice’ (January 2009) (EN)

Defence for Children International (DCI):

• 50th Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Information Notes on Juvenile Justice related issues (February 2009) (EN)

Panel Side-event at the Human Rights Council:

• “Juvenile Justice Challenges: Strategies to address Violence against Children in Contact with the Justice System”, 10 March 2009, Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland (flyer)

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2. Selected new resources on the Panel website:

Defence of Children International (DCI) - Costa Rica:

• “Conexión”, Central American Juvenile Justice Newsletter, Nr. 1, Year 2009 (Conexión, Boletín Centroamericano de Justicia Penal Juvenil) (January-February 2009) (ES)

• Electronic Juvenile Justice Newsletter, Special edition as part of the XVIII Ibero-american Summit (Boletín Electrónico de Justicia Penal Juvenil, Edición especial realizada en el marco de la XVIII Cumbre Iberoamericana) (2009) (ES)

Defence of Children International (DCI) - Uruguay:

• First Distance Learning Course on Socio-educational Measures Not Involving Deprivation of Liberty (Primer curso de formación a distancia sobre medidas socioeducativas no privativas de libertad) (February 2009) (ES)

Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh)/ Encuentros Casa de la Juventud - Peru:

• “Justicia para crecer”, Specialised Review on Restorative Juvenile Justice (Justicia para Crecer, Revista especializada en Justicia Juvenil Restaurativa), Nr. 12 (October-December 2008) (ES)

Défenseure des enfants - France:

• Summary of the main observations and recommendations of the Report of the “Défenseure des enfants” (Child Rights Defender) to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (Résumé des principales observations et recommandations du rapport de la Défenseure des enfants au Comité des droits de l’enfant des Nations Unies sur l’application de la Convention internationale des droits de l’enfant) (February 2009) (FR)

• Report of the “Défenseure des enfants” (Child Rights Defender) to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (Rapport de la Défenseure des enfants au Comité des droits de l’enfant des Nations Unies) (December 2008) (FR)

Ministero della Giustizia, Dipartimento per la Giustizia Minorile - Italy:

• Summary of the First Report on "Juvenile Delinquency" in Italy (Sintesi del Primo Rapporto sulla devianza minorile in Italia) (December 2008) (EN)

Sebastian Roché, Pôle “Sécurité et Cohésion”, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)/ Pacte, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Grenoble - France:

• Judging Juveniles as Adults, Minimum Compulsory Sentences, Higher Limits: Effects on Repeat Offenders and Juvenile Delinquency (Juger les mineurs comme des majeurs, peines minimales obligatoires, peines plancher : les effets sur la récidive et la délinquance des mineurs) (June 2007) (FR)

José Ignacio Mantecón Sancho, S. J./ Ciudad Nuestra - Peru:

• Series of Testimonies, Nr. 1, Martin Luther King Association: Working Experiences with Groups in El Agustino (Serie de Testimonios, Nr. 1, Asociación Martin Luther King: una experiencia de trabajo con las pandillas de El Agustino) (November 2008) (ES)

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3. Forthcoming Panel member events:

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

Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh)/ Encuentros Casa de la Juventud/ Public Ministry of Peru/ Catholic University of Lima:

• First World Congress on Restorative Juvenile Justice, 4-7 November 2009, Lima, Peru

Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh):

• Training for the students of the National School of Police, 29 March-5 April 2009, Conakry, Guinea.

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4. New links from our website:

NGOs:

• Coalition for Juvenile Justice, United States: Call for Presentations: “Unlocking the Future of Juvenile Justice”

To view other NGO links, please click here

Governmental and intergovernmental:

• Ministero della Giustizia, Dipartimento per la Giustizia Minorile, Italy (ITALIAN)
  

To view other governmental and intergovernmental links, please click here

Academic Institutions:

• Global Issues Resource Center, Cuyahoga Community College, United States: National Training to Implement or Enhance a local Teen Court or Youth Court Program

• Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

 To view other links to academic institutions, please click here

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5. New books on juvenile justice:

Dr. Ton Liefaard:

• Deprivation of Liberty of Children in Light of International Human Rights Law and Standards, School of Human Rights Research Series, volume 28, Intersentia Publishing (October 2008) (EN) (Table of contents, publisher’s website)

David Nosworthy (Ed.), Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF):

• Seen, but not Heard: Placing Children and Youth on the Security Governance Agenda, LIT Verlag, DCAF Publications (2009) (EN) (Flyer, publisher’s website, DCAF website)

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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:
English edition: Davinia Ovett, Secretariat Coordinator, IPJJ
French edition: Michaël Milliard, Communications Assistant, IPJJ
Spanish translation: Vera Winkelried
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