http://www.crin.org/docs/The Providenciales Resolution on Justice for the Next Generation.docx

This commentary from 'A Colloquium on the Child and the Law” organised jointly by the Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association and UNICEF in the Caribbean was written for CRIN by Justice M Imman Ali, High Court Division, Supreme Court of Bangladesh.

Justice M Imman Ali, among other observations, reports on the heated discussions that took place around whether the best interests principle in the Convention on the Rights of the Child should be extended to the realm of the criminal law.

Further information

• Caribbean: Commonwealth judges call for child rights commitment (16 October 2009) 
• UN: Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A manual on human rights for judges, prosecutors and lawyers (August 2008)
• Other articles by Bangladeshi judge Justice M Imman Ali:
  The rights of children in conflict with the law
  Are judges experts in determining age?

Previous Conference Report items

• 06/10/2009: SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: ECPAT International Report of the World Congress III against Sexual Exploitation of Children & Adolescents
• 24/09/2009: ARMED CONFLICT: Children as Zones of Peace: Mainstreaming the OPCRC-AC in the Southeast Asian Region
• 10/09/2009: INDIA: Children and Governance - Holding the State Accountable
• 10/06/2009: VIOLENCE: Children's Rights Platform launched
• 25/05/2009: SOUTH AFRICA: Children Who Cross Borders in Southern Africa

Last updated 27/10/2009 07:53:05

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