Juvenile Justice
Children around the world who are arrested and detained for alleged wrongdoing are often not given the protections they are entitled under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In many countries, children are charged and sentenced for acts that should not be crimes—such as truancy or misbehavior at home. Some states set a minimum age of criminal responsibility lower than the internationally acceptable age of 12. Some states also treat certain children, especially older adolescents or children who are accused of particularly serious crimes, as if they were adults during their trial and sentencing. Sentences of death, life without parole, and corporal punishment are still handed down in some countries, in violation of international law. The international prohibition on detaining children with adults is also often violated.
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“You Have No Right to Complain”
Education, Social Restrictions, and Justice in Taliban-Held Afghanistan
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Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Detained Children Tortured
Beatings, Electric Shock to Coerce ISIS Confessions
News
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Covid-19 Prisoner Releases Too Few, Too Slow
Known releases approximately 5% of global prison population
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Egypt: Security Forces Disappear, Torture Children
EU, US Should Stop Security Support Until Abuse Ends
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Iraq: ISIS Child Suspects Arbitrarily Arrested, Tortured
Children Should Be Rehabilitated, Reintegrated
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Children in the Philippines as Crime Scapegoats
Bill Would Lower Age of Criminal Responsibility from 15 to 9
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Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Detained Children Tortured
Beatings, Electric Shock to Coerce ISIS Confessions
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Submission by Human Rights Watch to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Australia
82nd pre-sessional, 2018
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California Should Stop Trying Kids as Adults
New Law Would Keep 14- and 15-Year-Olds in Juvenile System
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