In April 10th, the Kathmandu School of Law, in collaboration with the National Child Rights Council of the Government of Nepal and the National Child Protection Alliance, organized the Nepal National Consultation as a follow-up to the South Asia Regional Launch of the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty and the Policy Research […]
On the 5th April colleagues from the Global Study Team met with the UN-SRSG on Violence against Children, Ms. Najat Maalla and her team. Some of the main aspects discussed where the need to stop migration-related detention of all children and to ensure their procedural rights, including access to child-friendly information and in a language
On the 17th December, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Fundamental and Human Rights, together with the Global Campus of Human Rights invited children’s rights experts to the final conference of the project “Personal Freedom as a Child’s Right – Alternatives to Deprivation of Liberty and Restrictions of Liberty in Austria”. This is a follow-up project
On the 25th November the Global Study Team met colleagues from the Norwegian National Preventive Mechanism (see image) and from the Ombuds Institution. These two separate sessions permitted a more profound exchange of practices within the Norwegian context relating to children in detention in the administration of justice, in institutions and in the context of
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On the 23rd November the Barneombudet (Ombudsperson for Children) and the University of Oslo organized the yearly Lucy Smiths Conference. This year the conference had a focus on the rights of children in conflict with the law in the Norwegian context. Following the opening words and the presentation of the main findings of the Global
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Within the framework of the World Congress on Juvenile Justice the Global Campus of Human Rights was involved as Regional Partner in several activities. Together with Terre des Hommes and the NGO Panel on Children Deprived of Liberty three regional workshops were organised to present the Child-friendly Animated Film of the Global Study on Children
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In the framework of the Fundamental Rights Forum 2021, we presented the premiere of the Child-friendly Animated Film of the Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty. A large team was involved in the creation of this short film, including children and youth in different regions of the world. One of them was Angela V,
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During the 2-day Global Study Workshop organized by our colleague Chiara Altafin, Research Manager at the Global Campus of Human Rights, we had the opportunity to interact and hear about the work in Italy of national and regional Ombudspersons working on the rights of children and adolescents deprived of liberty. Following Manfred Nowak’s presentation on the
According to the Global Study findings, one out of every three children living in institutions is a child with a disability. The Study findings further show that many examples of deinstitutionalization are found in former Soviet States, Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. On the 30th of June, the Centre for European Studies at
On the 17th and 18th of June, the University of Deusto hosted a two-day seminar on child rights strategic litigation, with a focus on cases involving migrant children rights in Spain, and the strategies following the decisions of the CRC Committee for its implementation. This event brought together practitioners from several Spanish NGOs working on