[Calls upon States:] To ensure that all structures, procedures and programmes in the administration of justice with regard to children who infringe the penal law promote their re-education and rehabilitation, encouraging, whenever appropriate and desirable, measures for dealing with such children without resorting to judicial proceedings, and providing that human rights and legal safeguards are fully respected;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Education
Governance & Rule of Law
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Children
Year
2000
Paragraph type
OP
Paragraph focus
Children alleged to have or recognized as having infringed the penal law