Child

2022

Handbook on European law relating to the rights of the child

Children are full-fledged holders of rights. They are beneficiaries of all human and fundamental rights and subjects of special regulations, given their specific characteristics. This handbook aims to illustrate how European law and case law accommodate...

Advancing Children’s Rights in Detention A Model for International Reform

2022

Deprivation of Liberty

Advancing Children’s Rights in Detention A Model for International Reform

The UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty detailed many children’s poor experiences in detention, highlighting the urgent need for reform. Applying a child-centred model of detention that fulfils the rights of the child under the five...

Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

2022

Access to Justice

Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Call in an assembly to make sure what the child said or did with people in the assembly that do not know the child to validate whether what he did was good or bad. A proof that the assembly happened would be a paper that all the people in the assembly...

Challenges in the Future of Restorative Youth Justice in Ireland: Minimising Intervention, Maximising Participation

2022

Restorative Justice

Challenges in the Future of Restorative Youth Justice in Ireland: Minimising Intervention, Maximising Participation

While restorative approaches encompass a small proportion of youth justice practices in Ireland, the new Youth Justice Strategy (2021–2027) aims to include more victims in restorative justice, expand family conferencing and train youth justice professionals...

ABSCHLUSSBERICHT DES PILOTPROJEKTS „Kinderrechtsbasierte Kriterien für das familiengerichtliche Verfahren“ Eine Studie der Katholischen Hochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen, Abteilung Münster, im Auftrag de

2022

Family & Civil Matters

ABSCHLUSSBERICHT DES PILOTPROJEKTS „Kinderrechtsbasierte Kriterien für das familiengerichtliche Verfahren“ Eine Studie der Katholischen Hochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen, Abteilung Münster, im Auftrag de

The final report of the pilot project "Children's Rights-Based Criteria for Family Court Proceedings" discusses the criteria by which family court proceedings can be designed to be child-friendly. 

2021

Child Participation & Empowerment

Mapping Child Participation in Barnahus in Europe: Survey Results 2021

The objective of the current mapping is to identify potential methods and processes that can help the Promise Barnahus Network to further empower children during their journey through Barnahus in an even more meaningful way.

2021

Access to Justice

The Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Access to Justice

The survey collected information from UNICEF’s network of 157 country offices on disruptions in service provision as a result of the coronavirus, at the national level, across different sectors.

Core Competencies for Personnel Working with Children Deprived of Liberty

2021

Deprivation of Liberty

Core Competencies for Personnel Working with Children Deprived of Liberty

This document defines the core competencies needed to protect and uphold the rights of children at all times. The information it contains was derived from a detailed analysis and consultations with more than 70 speacialists.

Technical Note: COVID-19 and Children Deprived of their Liberty

2021

Deprivation of Liberty

Technical Note: COVID-19 and Children Deprived of their Liberty

This note aims to provide detaining authorities with key information and steps to respond to COVID-19 including by instituting a moratorium on new children entering detention facilities; releasing all children who can be safely released; and protecting...

Children in Contact with the Law in Europe: Trends and Opportunities

2021

Access to Justice

Children in Contact with the Law in Europe: Trends and Opportunities

The report contains a set of recommendations that aim to build stronger skills for professionals working with children in criminal proceedings, create child-centred policies and legislative frameworks, invest in robust monitoring of the situation of children...

Full Research Report Running Away: Drivers, Awareness, and Responses

2021

Child Protection

Full Research Report Running Away: Drivers, Awareness, and Responses

This report details the results of the project’s Europe-wide research conducted in the form of quantitative data on runaways obtained from Missing Children Europe’s child hotlines and Child Helpline International’s child helplines, focus...

2021

Restorative Justice

E-learning on Protecting Child Victims Through Restorative Justice

This E-Module is designed to build and/or increase the capacities of different professionals working with child victims and/or child offenders in the criminal justice and in the child protection systems in terms of child-victim-friendly restorative justice...