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Author: O’Donnell, Daniel

Title: Juvenile Justice in Central Asia: Reform Achievements and Challenges in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan

Summary: This report describes some of the positive developments in bringing juvenile justice in line with international standards in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan since their independence from the Soviet Union. The report also demonstrates that serious gaps hinder the establishment of fully compliant systems in each of the countries. None of the five countries has a specialised juvenile justice system as of yet. Prevention and reintegration policies and programmes are almost non-existent and the social sector is only rarely involved. Children can spent long periods in detention, especially pre-trial, for petty offenses. The report also points out to violence in detention, sometimes amounting to torture, and to the weakness of monitoring and accountability mechanisms across the region. It concludes with some recommendations, including one on the importance to reinforce independent mechanisms for monitoring the rights of children in the context of juvenile justice in Central Asia.

Details: Geneva: UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS, 2012. 68p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 29, 2012 at: http://www.ipjj.org/fileadmin/data/documents/reports_monitoring_evaluation/UNICEF_JuvenileJusticeInCentralAsiaReformAchievementsChallenges_2012_EN.pdf

Year: 2012

Country: Asia

URL: http://www.ipjj.org/fileadmin/data/documents/reports_monitoring_evaluation/UNICEF_JuvenileJusticeInCentralAsiaReformAchievementsChallenges_2012_EN.pdf

Shelf Number: 125436

Keywords:
Juvenile Justice Systems (Asia)
Juvenile Offenders