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Webinar - Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in child justice, with extensive implications for children’s rights. Join the webinar “Impact of the AI Act on children’s rights and child justice”, co-organized by i-ACCESS and Justice with Children, to explore…
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Webinar - Barnahus is recognised in Europe as a leading model to ensure child centred multidisciplinary and interagency collaboration under one roof.
All children who are involved with a Barnahus have the right to express their views and have them given due weight at an individual…
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Webinar - Working together across disciplines and sectors to implement children’s rights to justice, protection and recovery is increasingly becoming a given approach. Barnahus is recognised in Europe as a leading model to ensure child centred multidisciplinary and interagency…
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News - Euractiv.com reports that removal orders, reporting requirements and governance architecture are the focus of a new Council text on the legislative proposal against child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
The EU draft law to fight the dissemination of CSAM…
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News - Romanian authorities and international experts seek to create conditions for child focused justice and restorative practices in Romania.
„The system should adapt to children and their needs, not children to the system”, stated Mariama Diallo, coordinator of Child Friendly…
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Multimedia - This document was developed within the Clear RIGHTS project – ”Enhancing legal assistance and access to justice for children in conflict with the law.”
An accreditation system is a means of promoting quality legal assistance. In order to reach this purpose, a set of…
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Multimedia - This research study is aimed at presenting an overview of various legal aid systems for children in conflict with the law, with special focus on five countries: Belgium, France, Hungary, Romania and the Netherlands.
One of the goals of this research has been to…
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News - Criminal justice remains unjust for children and youth in Europe. It is necessary to ensure free and equal access to specialised legal aid for all young people in contact with the law.
Within the CLEAR RIGHTS project (enhancing legal aid for children in…
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News - During the closing conference, the FOCUS project team officially launched its learning platform for child justice professionals on individual assessments, to ensure that the needs of children in contact with the law are comprehensively assessed and their voices are…
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International Conference: "FOCUS on My Needs: Working together for children in criminal proceedings"
Webinar - On 10 March, from 14:00 to 18:00 CET, professionals and children from across Europe will gather on Zoom for the closing conference of the EU project, "FOCUS on My Needs: working together for children in criminal proceedings…
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Multimedia - Minors and young people who have committed a criminal offense still have rights, the same rights. They are often victims (either directly or indirectly) and must be treated with dignity and care, to prevent their relapse. Terre des hommes talked to young people who…
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News - 15 enthusiastic Romanian teenagers participated as volunteers in the I-RESTORE project which promotes restorative justice, encourages children and advocates for child victim rights in judicial procedures.
Project Child Advisory Board (CAB) teenagers learned a lot about…
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Online library - UK: proposals put forward about a monitoring mechanism designed to make the Family Court and its outcomes safer for children
Context
60% of cases dealt with in the family justice system relate to domestic abuse
Many survivors fear for the safety of their…
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I loved that it truly was a child-led programme, which is not often the case.
Some might use such a phrase, but when it comes to applying it, it's rarely even the case.
We've got the chance to really express ourselves, and not just it: what we said was…
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News - New York: With the 2021 World Congress on Justice with Children approaching, UNICEF released new data about children held in detention globally, and call for juvenile justice reform to end detention of all children
Issue at hand
Globally an estimated 261,000 children are…
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Learn More about Child Victim Protection and Restorative Justice at the i-Restore Closing Conference
Webinar - On 4 November, from 14:30 to 18:00 CET, professionals and children from across Europe will gather on Zoom for the i-Restore closing conference. Book your free spot and join us for a chance to discuss how to further implement restorative justice practices to…
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News - Montenegro must take bold steps to strengthen its child protection system to prevent and respond to the sale and sexual exploitation of children more effectively, the UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, Mama Fatima Singhateh, said at the…
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Online library - A new report finds that 33% of European countries can prosecute children above the age of criminal responsibility for offences committed while under the age of criminal responsibility.
A new report, developed by Terre des hommes, in close…
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News - In a new book, a high school principal, Zachary Scott Robbins explains how he implemented a time-efficient and budget-friendly process to improve equity in the discipline.
The restorative justice tribunal is designed to divert students from the justice system and restore…
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News - To effectively protect child victims from further harm and support their healing process, i-RESTORE promotes the use of child-friendly restorative justice and empowers children to become agents of change.
The best interest of the child…
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Young people in education and detention centers in Romania have little chance of developing their social skills in a useful way and thus risk missing rehabilitation and reintegration. They largely depend on how the specialized staff work with them and train them for…
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News - We invite you to the upcoming international workshop focusing on best individual assessment practices
Each year more than one million minors in the European Union face criminal proceedings within and across national borders. While in recent decades…
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News - In 2019, the INCLUDE project was launched by Missing Children Europe, to offer a set of good practices to legal professionals. In 2020, Hintalovon carried out drama-based research in Hungary related to international parental child abduction, which contributed to the…
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News - What is child-friendly justice in the eyes of children?
"A judicial system where a child is an active participant and not just a passive subject, a judicial system which is not about a child, but with a child." (Serbia, a 17-year-old boy and…
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Online library - In January, UNICEF conducted a survey on the Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-19 Response. Later, this survey was used, among others, to release a publication on the impact of COVID-19 on children’s access to justice. During the COVID crisis, especially…
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News - Over half of the children in young offender institutions have been in care, according to research done by the Howard League for Penal Reform.
A 14-year-old girl is appearing in court charged with making threats to burn down a children's home. She was living there at the time…
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News - The BBC reports on the newly introduced smacking ban bill in Scotland, presenting the country as the very first part of the United Kingdom to do so.
Before the bill, it was allowed and quite common among parents and carers to use smacking as a form of…
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News - Children and Young People Now reports on the situation of children used as police spies, exposing them to continuous risks and harmful situations.
There has been a major disagreement between Home Office in revising its policy on using children…
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Multimedia - According to the Standing Committee for Youth Justice (SCYJ), a national alliance of 60 charities and youth organisations, in England and Wales, the current criminal records system makes it impossible for young people to leave their past mistakes behind and go ahead…
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News - Of the many issues facing a couple that separates or files for divorce, there is nothing more important than establishing a child custody plan as soon as possible.
In the best-case scenario, the couple amicably comes to an agreement regarding legal decision-…
