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MenuCan the prison system be transformed? Shaka Senghor and #Cut50 By MOLLY ROWAN LEACH 25 March 2015 A new campaign to be launched on March 26 aims to cut the U.S. prison population in half by 2025. Shaka Senghor. Credit: http://www.ecotrust.org. All rights reserved. Shaka Senghor spent ..... Read More
Life sentences or sentences of an extreme length have a disproportionate impact on children and cause physical and psychological harm that amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment” says the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan E. Méndez, in his thematic report on children deprived of liberty. ..... Read More
POLITICS, PAISA OR PRIORITIES WHERE WOULD CHILDREN FIT INTO THE 2015-16 UNION BUDGET? Bharti Ali and Kumar Shailabh* Recently, suspecting organised trafficking in children, the Maharashtra government announced its plan to conduct DNA tests on children found with women begging on the streets. Surprisingly ..... Read More
It’s not child-friendly to make children criminals Peter Newell, Coordinator, Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children and member CRIN’s Council The proposition in CRIN’s long paper is simple: that criminalising children is not child-friendly, and more significantly that it is in conflict ..... Read More
Stop making children criminals ** The “minimum age” debate – separating “responsibility” from “criminalisation” A panel discussion organised by the Child Rights International Network at the World Congress on Juvenile Justice, Geneva Wednesday January 28, 16.45 – 18.00 International Conference Centre of Geneva (CICG) ..... Read More
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