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Department for International Development highlights the importance of children gaining global awareness
The Government Department for International Development (DFID) is targeting UK parents in a campaign to highlight the importance of young people gaining global awareness. The campaign encourages parents to take part in international activities and events over the summer holidays to give their children a more global viewpoint and, when the autumn term starts, to urge their schools to establish a Global School Partnership. Parents can hear p... [more]
Young people are rarely heard in the development of criminal or social justice policy and practices
One of the hallmarks of the last decade has been a law and order focus on children and young people. Yet, the voices of children and young people are rarely heard in the development of criminal or social justice policy and practices. Criminal Justice Matters is the quarterly magazine of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, an independent charity based at King's College. The themed issue of Criminal Justice Matters, edited by Sir Al Ayns... [more]
Amnesty International film and book for children mark 60th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Adopted by the United Nations on 10 December 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) has 30 Articles, each enshrining a particular right – including the right to life, liberty, security, freedom of opinion and expression and the right not to be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Amnesty International has joined forces with leading actors and world-renowned illustrators to bring to life the UDHR for a... [more]
The law on assisting suicide applies equally to online and off-line actions
Suicide ceased to be a crime in 1961 but under section 2 of the Suicide Act 1961, it remains an offence to “aid, abet, counsel or procure” a suicide or a suicide attempt. The law on assisting suicide is to be simplified to increase public understanding and reassure people that it applies as much on the internet as it does off-line, said Justice Minister Maria Eagle. Following a review of the Suicide Act 1961, the Government has decided to re... [more]
Men need to be aware of their parental rights when it comes to divorce and children's law
Andrew Caldicott is a family lawyer and Solicitor Advocate with Worcestershire and West Midlands’ law firm Harrison Clark LLP. He takes a look at the parental rights of fathers in a relationship breakdown. “Even in this modern age, I am sure like me, you will often hear it said that “it is still a man’s world”. Certainly over the past few decades, there has been a wealth of legislation aimed at tackling sexual discrimination and balancing up t... [more]
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Mississippi Faces Suit Over Children's Mental Health (CommonDreams.org)
The state of Mississippi is facing a federal lawsuit alleging its failure to provide community-based mental health services to its children is denying them access to care and increasing their odds of being institutionalized. The Southern Poverty Law Center Mississippi Youth Justice Project , the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and local civil rights attorney Rob McDuff are suing the state ...
Valerie Taliman: Stop the Racist Attacks on Our Children (The Huffington Post)
Just as we think we're making progress, another hate crime rears its ugly head. And this time, it's against our children. Everyone who believes in human rights must speak out against hate crimes.
From Brewer to Arpaio, No One's Listening to the Experts About How to Save Money or Protect Civil Rights and Public ... (Phoenix New Times)
It must be incredibly demoralizing to be a juvenile-justice-reform advocate in Maricopa County these days. The governor's made official her plan to close the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections, sending about 500 kids incarcerated by the state to the counties, thus cutting roughly $63...
Without Anti-gay Hysteria, Massa's a Dud for the GOP (The Nation via Yahoo! News)
The Nation -- There was an intense, conspiratorial, crazily sincere man on Glenn Beck's show Tuesday, and it wasn't Glenn Beck.
Mental cases spur lawsuit (The Clarion-Ledger)
A Grenada County youth has spent 13 of his 17 years in foster care, been hospitalized at least five times, placed in five residential treatment facilities and more than 10 group homes and shelters.
Denison man named ombudsman for TYC (Dallas Morning News)
AUSTIN - A Denison man with 35 years of law enforcement experience was named ombudsman Wednesday for the Texas Youth Commission, a job vacant for four months after Gov. Rick Perry 's previous appointee was indicted.
Delhi Police launch juvenile justice website (Calcutta News)
A website that will help deal with cases of missing children faster as well as provide information on all aspects of juvenile justice and rights was launched by the Delhi Police Saturday.
USA TODAY's Board of Contributors (USA Today)
USA TODAY's board of contributors, which was launched in 1996, is composed of more than 25 contributing writers, whose interests range from education to religion to sports to the economy. Their charge is to chronicle American culture by telling the stories, large and small, that collectively make us what we are. The writers many of them well-known columnists, authors and thinkers come from all ...
Delhi Police launch juvenile justice website (New Kerala)
New Delhi, March 6 : A website that will help deal with cases of missing children faster as well as provide information on all aspects of juvenile justice and rights was launched by the Delhi Police Saturday.
San Jose honors Cesar Chavez (San Jose Mercury News)
Signs of a smiling, fortysomething Chavez will mark San Jose sites that figured in the life and work of the 1960s farmworker and civil rights leader.
