Child-Friendly Justice : A Quarter of a Century of the un Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART 1 Basic Components of Child-friendly Justice Systems -- A Quarter of a Century with the un Convention on the Rights of the Child* -- Children's Rights, Freedom from Violence and Criminal Justice -- Reflections on Child-friendly Justice* -- Best Interests of the Child -- Corporal Punishment, Crime and Human Rights: Lessons for Child-friendly Justice -- Relational Representation: The Empowerment of Children in Justice Systems -- Children's Right to be Heard from Their Unique Perspectives -- Children's Evidence and the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Improving the Legal System for Children -- Child-sensitive Justice for Children of Imprisoned Parents -- Challenges in Implementing Child Rights - A Call for Innovative Governance for Children -- Part 2 Children and Criminal Justice Systems -- It Is Not Child-friendly to Make Children Criminals1 -- From the Inside - Children and Young People on Life in Police Cells and in Remand Prisons -- "Without Resorting to Judicial Proceedings": Diversion and Mediation -- Children's Houses - Barnahus: Today and in the Future -- Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime in India -- Evidential Difficulties in Criminal Proceedings Concerning Alleged Child Sexual Abuse against Children with Neuropsychiatric Disorders -- PART 3 Children and Civil and Administrative Justice -- Justice for the Migrant Child: The Protective Force of the Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Unaccompanied and Separated Asylum-seeking Minors: Implementing a Rights-based Approach in the Asylum Process -- The Child's Right to Protection of Private Life and Family Life -- The Right to a Fair Trial from a Child's Perspective - Reflections from a Comparative Analysis of Two Child-protection Systems.

PART 4 Child-friendly Justice: Continental Perspectives -- Section 1 Europa -- Children and Justice -- European Court of Human Rights -- Section 2 Africa -- What's in a Name? "Child-friendly" Justice in Africa -- Section 3 Americas -- Access to Justice in the Inter-American System: Standards and Challenges -- Index.

In Child-friendly Justice, world-leading experts on children's rights analyse how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has strengthened children's status in civil, administrative and criminal justice systems.

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