Juvenile Justice – a way to help to children in conflict with law
We should well understand that a prison is not the best correction place for young offenders, who committed minor crimes. Often, in a prison juveniles get used to crime life, which is opposite of what we want to achieve,” the President Islam Karimov, the VI session of the Parliament of Uzbekistan.A number of senior officials from the office of the General Prosecutor, the Ministry of Interior, the Parliament, the Legal Problems Studies Center, the National Center on Human Rights and UNICEF representatives have recently met for the final review and discussion of the draft law on Juvenile Justice to be presented in Uzbek Parliament by the end of 2006. It took almost a year for its development by the special working group under the Legal Problems Studies Center, which brought together many experts from different governmental agencies, Parliament, NGOs and universities. “It is an exemplary draft law for the whole Central Asian region and even advanced than the laws of some European countries,” says Renate Winter, international consultant to UNICEF.
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