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At its 10th session (Geneva, 30 October to 17 November 1995) the Committee on the Rights of the Child devoted a day of general discussion (13 November 1995) to the theme "The Administration of Juvenile Justice". As for previous thematic discussions, the Committee invited representatives of United Nations organs, bodies and specialized agencies, as well as other competent bodies, including non-governmental organizations, research and academic organizations and individual experts, to contribute to the discussion. Several organizations and individual experts submitted contributions and other relevant documents on this theme. Here you will find a list of these contributions by "other competent bodies" in PDF format.

For further information or other enquiries please contact the Committee on the Rights of the Child - Secretariat, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Palais des Nations - CH-1211 Genève 10 - Switzerland, Phone +41 22 917 9235 or 917 9000, Fax +41 22 917 9022, or email mbustelo.hchr@unog.ch. This report is adapted from Annex VI, List of submitted documents for the Day of General Discussion (13 November 1995) on "The Administration of Juvenile Justice", in "Report of the tenth session," CRC/C/46. The report and general recommendations, as well as introduction, agenda, suggested guide, can be read in full on the website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

1. By Governments

1.1 Austria

1.1.1 Austrian Federal Ministry for Youth and Family, "Children in trouble". United Nations Expert Group Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 30 October-4 November 1994

1.1.2 "Human rights in juvenile justice: towards an integrated international strategy"

1.2 The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

1.2.1 "Implementation of juvenile justice", by Ms. E. Andreevska, Adviser to them Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2. By United Nations organs

2.1 United Nations Children’s Fund Emilio Garcia Mendez, Regional Adviser on Child Rights, UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, "Adolescents in conflict with criminal law: citizen security and basic rights"

3. By intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and individual experts

3.1 Children’s Rights Centre of Ghent University Eugen Verhellen and Geert Cappelaere, "United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency: prevention of juvenile delinquency or promotion of a society which respects children too?"

3.2 Defence for Children International

3.2.1. West Bank Legal Aid Program, "Juvenile Justice in Israeli occupied West Bank. Lessons of the joint project of DCI-Palestine and DCI-Israel"

3.2.2 "Un réseau international sur la justice des mineurs. De la création des normes à la mise en oeuvre"

3.3 Epoch Worldwide

3.3.1 Peter Newell, "Physical punishment of children in the juvenile justice system"

3.3.2. "Juvenile justice: using the UN Convention to audit juvenile justice systems and related services"

3.4 Human Rights Watch Children’s Rights Project

Lois Whitman, "United States: children in confinement in Louisiana"

3.5 International Catholic Child Bureau

3.5.1. Project "Children in prison" in Africa

3.5.2. Project on community-based alternatives to imprisoning children in central and north-eastern Brazil "Liberar la esperanza.

3.5.3. Niñas y niños privados de libertad en América Latina"

3.6.International Committee of the Red Cross

"Administration of juvenile justice"

3.7. Japan Federation of Bar Associations

3.7.1. A report from the Japan Federation of Bar Associations to the General Discussion of the Committee on the Rights of the Child

3.7.2. A report to the Eighth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention: "Japan’s juvenile justice system: an overview"

3.7.3. A report on the application and practice in Japan of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

3.7.4. A report from the Japan Federation of Bar Associations to the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders

3.8. Justice

Submissions to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

3.9. National Children’s Bureau, United Kingdom

3.9.1. Submission to the General Discussion day on the administration of juvenile justice

3.9.2. "Safe to let out? The current and future use of secure accommodation for children and young people"

3.10 Child Rights for Lawyers for Human Rights, South Africa

Ann Skelton, "Developing a juvenile justice system for South Africa: international instruments and restorative justice"

3.11 Dan O’Donnell

"The arrest and detention of street children under the Convention on the Rights of the Child"

3.11 Organisation Mondiale contre la Torture (OMCT/SOS-Torture)

"Les enfants en conflit avec la loi"

3.12 Rädda Barnen

Tim O’Flynn, "Summary of findings re juvenile justice in Sri Lanka, India and Nepal"

3.13. Save the Children Fund, United Kingdom

3.13.1 John Parry Williams et al., "The administration of juvenile justice; a discussion paper"

3.13.2. Petrus Trevi, Department of Social Welfare, Ghana, "Report on the re-establishment of probation services and community supervision for juveniles in Ghana, 1992-1995"

3.14. Terre des Hommes

3.14.1. Bal Sakha, "Programme for the protection of children’s rights, Patna, Bihar, India"

3.14.2. "The juvenile justice system in India"

Previous CRC - NGO Alternative Report items

• 30/10/1995: Remarks on the Initial Report of the Federal Republic of Germany Submitted in Accordance with Article 44 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
• 30/10/1995: Article 40 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - a 2 page statement
• 01/10/1995: Assessment of the initial report of the Federal Republic of Germany by NGOs
• 01/10/1995: Recommendations of NGOs on the initial report of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
• 01/10/1995: Statement of the coordinating committee of the national coalition on the initial report of the federal government on UN CRC

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