Resources on Child-centred Justice and the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty
Explore a diverse range of publications, resources and toolkits on child-centred justice and the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, developed across the Global Campus network by researchers, practitioners and other actors, often in collaboration with civil society and children themselves.
The UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty
The UN Global Study investigates the various situations under which children are deprived of liberty, focusing on contexts such as juvenile justice, migration, and family detention. It highlights the scale of the issue, inform policy recommendations, and promote alternatives to deprivation of liberty. The Study found that 7.2 million children are deprived of their liberty per year.
Executive summaries are available in English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Arabic.
Toolkit: Ending Deprivation of Liberty of Children in Migration
The objective of this toolkit is to provide guidance to States and other stakeholders to support the process of ending detention of children for migration-related reasons and safeguarding the human rights of migrant children throughout their stay in the country, by sharing useful information to conduct appropriate reforms. This toolkit was specifically developed for States, governmental agencies, policy-makers, actors working on migration-related detention, as well as for actors like NGOs working on the protection of children in the context of migration.
Toolkit: Ending Deprivation of Liberty of Children in Armed Conflict & National Security
This toolkit outlines how to implement the UN Global Study’s recommendations for reducing the number of detained children. The toolkit presents alternatives to detention and promising practices for removing children from armed groups or groups designated terrorist or violent extremist, reintegrating them into their communities and providing rehabilitation. It can be of use both for informing law-making and creating preventive structures, as well as for developing handover procedures, institutionalising diversion mechanisms, training officials within the child justice system, and supporting de-radicalisation and rehabilitation.
Toolkit: Ending Deprivation of Liberty of Children in Institutions
The primary beneficiaries of this toolkit are all children who live in institutional settings or who are at risk of being placed in institutional forms of care. According to the findings of the Global Study and other studies, children with disabilities are at the highest risk of being placed in different forms of institutional care. Thereby, this document pays a specific focus on the transition from institutional to family-based care for children with disabilities. The toolkit contains information on the latest non-legal resources on the issue of children in non-family- based alternative care, the developments in the international human rights law related to alternative care for children, and examples of promising practices in ensuring non-custodial care across the world.
Toolkit: Ending Deprivation of Liberty of Children in the Administration of Justice
This toolkit is intended as a simple, practical pathway to a collection of resources which address
deprivation of liberty of children across the world and which supports efforts to end such deprivation. It aims to provide guidance to relevant stakeholders on how best to: identify existing challenges leading to deprivation of liberty of children; and respond to these challenges by using alternative, non-custodial approaches. The target audience includes professionals working in:
police/law enforcement; the justice sector/juvenile justice; lawyers and other legal professionals; social workers, service providers and other practitioners.
Ending Deprivation of Liberty of Migrant Children through Improved Data
Little is known about the characteristics of children deprived of liberty for migration related reasons. This study aims to verify the existence, accessibility, and quality of data on immigration detention of children. The authors approached 37 states requesting statistics under Freedom of Information regulations. Migration authorities were asked for historical and up-to-date statistics disaggregated by basic demographic features such as gender, nationality and accompanied status. Although data is scarce, several data-related promising practices were identified. Their implementation can significantly improve data capabilities of migration authorities and contribute to better policy making, particularly in measuring the progress toward ending the immigration detention of children.
Child-friendly Animated Film on the UN Global Study
The Global Campus produced an animated video for children aged 14-18 year in English, Spanish, French and Arabic, and a trailer for each language. A large team was involved in the creation of this short film, including children and youth in different regions. This process ensured that the film is accurate and of high quality, as well as engaging with the envisaged target group.
The video mainly targets schools and educational institutions as well as adult audiences with no or very limited knowledge on the issue of children deprived of liberty.
Interested in the full-lenght feature video? Contact: info AT gchumanrights.org
Children Deprived of Liberty in the Administration of Justice in South-East Asia
This Policy Research is the first of its kind as comprehensive research on children deprived of liberty in South Asia. The research is conducted to assess the amplitude of the occurrence of children deprived of liberty and the administration of justice in South Asian countries. It was based on the UN Study on Children Deprived of Liberty that provides an overview of the situation of children deprived of liberty worldwide and sets out clear recommendations for change and includes positive examples from a range of countries.
Reinforcing the Rights of Children in Secure Care Centres in South Africa
This report is one of the outputs of a project to develop a model for an independent oversight mechanism to reinforce the rights of children in secure care in South Africa. It focuses on the first three project objectives: undertake a base-line study of the current facilities, through visits to the Secure Care Centres and conduct interviews with children and with staff, to inform the model for an independent oversight mechanism.
Personal Liberty of Children in Austria Revisited
The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (LBI-GMR), in cooperation with the Global Campus, developed a project to advance the implementation of the comprehensive recommendations of the UN Global Study at the national level. The project addressed the question of the extent to which these recommendations have already been implemented in Austria and where further action is needed.
Strategic Litigation
Child rights strategic litigation (CRSL) is litigation that seeks to bring about positive legal and/or social change in terms of children’s enjoyment of their rights. This report emerges from the Advancing Child Rights Strategic Litigation
(ACRiSL) project, a three-year global research collaboration bringing together partners from advocacy and academia to work on child rights strategic litigation. A key aim of this work is to support and contribute in a meaningful way to the work of practitioners, advocates and others working in the area of CRSL, and strengthen existing CRSL efforts to advance children’s rights.
Child Rights Strategic Litigation (2022)
In recent years, Child Rights Strategic Litigation (CRSL) related to climate justice has surged globally. The Key Principles for Climate Justice Litigators from the ACRiSL Project—a three-year global research initiative—offer guidance on integrating child rights into climate litigation. Based on insights from litigators across four continents and engagements with young people, these principles address four key stages: case scoping and design, litigation execution, follow-up and implementation, and extra-legal advocacy.
Children Deprived of Liberty in the Administration of Justice (2022)
This Policy Research is the first of its kind as comprehensive research on children deprived of liberty in South Asia. The research is conducted to assess the amplitude of the occurrence of children deprived of liberty and the administration of justice in South Asian countries. It was based on the UN Study on Children Deprived of Liberty that provides an overview of the situation of children deprived of liberty worldwide and sets out clear recommendations for change and includes positive examples from a range of countries.
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) Reports
Curious about our MOOCs on children’s rights and related topics? Explore our reports here:
– Children’s Right to Education in Armed Conflict
– Children’s Mental Health: Rights and Perspectives
– Child Participation and the Right to a Sustainable Environment
– Children’s Rights and Technology in the Digital Age
– Children Deprived of Liberty: Enacting the Recommendations of the UN Global Study
– Children Deprived of Liberty: Learning from the UN Global Study