SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 114
Paragraphe
Paragraph text
Rather than focusing on punishment, restorative justice addresses the causes and consequences of offending and aims to repair the harm caused by wrongdoing. Through a voluntary process, which involves all those concerned, it helps to strengthen community ties, while fostering repentance and forgiveness and shaping genuine and purposeful process of social reintegration.
Status juridique
Non-negotiated soft law
Organe
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children