Six focus areas of the study cover all situations of deprivation of liberty of children including, administration of justice, children living in places of detention with their primary caregivers, migration- related detention, children deprived of liberty in institutions, in armed conflict and for national security reasons. This was the subject matter of the UN study, which included examination of questionnaire responses by 92 states, a desk review, a number of international, regional, thematic experts’ meetings, and most importantly the views of 274 children. The arrest, detention or imprisonment of a child shall be in conformity with the law and shall be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time”.ĭespite this commitment by 192 states, children continue to be detained under a range of contexts. This serves as global recognition for the set of human rights affirmed by the treaty for children, in particular, resorting to deprivation of liberty as last resort.Īrticle 37(b) states unequivocally that “No child shall be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully or arbitrarily. The CRC is ratified by all UN member states except for the United States. The launch of the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty this week in Geneva is timely: around the world people are marking, and celebrating, the 30 th Anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of Child (CRC) which is the most widely ratified treaty. In this blog, PRI’s Taghreed Jaber, Regional Director for the Middle East North Africa who contributed to the study, summarises some of the key points from the Study and calls for follow-up.
The study also identifies best practices in non-custodial solutions applied by States in six situations.
The Study represents the first scientific attempt, on the basis of global data, to comprehend the magnitude of the situation of children deprived of liberty, its possible justifications and root causes, as well as conditions of detention and their harmful impact on the health and development of children. This week in Geneva the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty was presented after three years of research.
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