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Organisation aims and activities: EJI is a private, nonprofit organisation that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.
Further details:
We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. EJI works with communities that have been marginalised by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment.
EJI also prepares reports, newsletters and manuals to assist advocates and policymakers in the critically important work of reforming the administration of criminal justice. EJI recently issued a report about 13- and 14-year-old children sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole in the U.S. in which it called for abolition of such sentences for young teens and contended these sentences violate the CRC as well as the U.S. Constitution.
Operational level: National
Works with age groups : Children 0 - 18
Organisation type: NGO - non governmental organisation
Organisation mandate: Provide training or education on child rights, Research child rights, Undertake legal casework on behalf of children, Work directly with children, Work with media and press
Areas of expertise: Individual cases of violations, Justice, Minority or indigenous children
Countries in which this organisation works: United States
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Last updated 09/06/2009 11:21:26
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