Children’s Rights Behind Bars 2

Children’s Rights Behind Bars 2

Promoting children's participation for a positive social reintegration of children deprived of liber

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Children’s Rights Behind Bars 2
Summary

This project is the follow up of two EU funded succesfully implemented projects: “Children’s rights behind bars – CRBB – Improving monitoring mechanisms” that has produced the first Practical Guide on monitoring places where children are deprived of their liberty, based on 14 national research reports and a strong collaboration with the Council of Europe, in particular its Committee on Prevention of Torture (CPT) and other UN bodies (like the SPT) and  "Twelve - Promoting the implementation of Article 12 of the CRC in the juvenile justice system" that has produced a Handbook - “Children’s right to participation and the juvenile justice system - theory & practices for implementation” - based on national reports as well as an European training module aimed at enhancing participation of children in conflict with the law.

 

Project Duration

November 2016 - Dicember 2018

 
Objectives

Promoting children’s participation for a positive social reintegration of children deprived of liberty, in particular:

1) To improve detention conditions of children through training of monitoring bodies and professionals;

2) To enhance protection of children deprived of liberty by promoting effective participation in monitoring detention conditions;

3) To foster collaboration of services involved in reintegration;

4) To assess the added value of actions and changes produced by the project’s actions.

 

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Activities
  • A set of trainings involving monitoring bodies at national and regional level will be implemented with a view to enhance collaboration between monitoring bodies in the partner countries. The practical guide developed in the first phase of the project will be translated in partners’ languages, printed and disseminated. Furthermore, capacity building laboratories with professionals will be implemented in 2/3 detention place of each country in order to draft and test a self assessment tool developed on the basis of children’s rights and of the Guide.

  • Two pilot projects will be developed in the 4 countries foreseeing detained children’ active participation in monitoring of places for deprivation of liberty where they will be asked to suggest possible improvements by using different participatory methodologies such as photo, video, drawing, theather, focus groups,...

  • Focus groups with stakeholders involved in reintegration process of juveniles, as judges, prosecutors, lawyers, social workers will be organized in the 4 countries in order to set up or improve reintegration schemes and draft protocoles for better cooperation.

  • The project involves data-collection in the four countries and an external evaluation of the project. In each contry national reports will be prepared as well as a translational report of the whole project to be disseminated at EU level.

 
Partnership and collaborations

Defence for Children international - Belgium

Defence for Children International - Italia

Department for Juvenile Justice and Community of the Minister of Justice - Italy

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights - Poland

The Howard League for social reform - UK

DCI World Service

Contact Us

Defence for Children International - Italia

Sede legale e sociale: Piazza Don Andrea Gallo 5-6-7 R - 16124 Genova 
Sede operativa: Via Bellucci 4-6 - 16124 Genova

 

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Defence for Children international Italia
Sede legale e sociale: Piazza Don Andrea Gallo 5-6-7 R - 16124 Genova
Sede operativa: Via Bellucci 4-6, 16124 Genova
010 0899050