The rights of the child 2015, para. 29

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Encourages States to develop and implement a comprehensive juvenile justice policy to protect and address the needs of children in contact with the law, with a view to promoting, inter alia, a commitment to improving the quality of education available to children placed in alternative care and within the juvenile justice system, crime prevention programmes, the use of alternative measures, such as diversion, restorative justice and community-based programmes that focus on the rehabilitation and reintegration of the child, and ensuring compliance with the principle that deprivation of liberty of children should be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time, as well as to avoid, wherever possible, the use of pretrial detention for children;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
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Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Education
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
Year
2015
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, The rights of the child (2015), A/RES/70/137, OP 29.
Paragraph info
OP
Paragraph number
29