Child-friendly justice
The challenge, The situation for children in the criminal justice in Albania needs urgent attention. A multi-country evaluation focusing on Albania and 11 other countries in Europe and Central Asia identified that Albania had the highest rate of children in detention (178.3 per 100 thousand children aged 14-17 in 2014). Children presumed innocent in pre-trial…, The solution, In March 2017, the Albanian Parliament adopted the Criminal Justice for Children Code, marking an unprecedented legal development and philosophical shift in approaching children’s treatment within the criminal justice system. This effort had UNICEF’s technical and financial support. For the first time in Albania’s legislative system, children who…, Resources, Children, access to justice and discrimination. An overview of judicial decisions in relation to children from the point of view of discrimination and equality (2016) -https://www.unicef.org/albania/2016-Access_to_Justice.pdf Social Integration and Re-integration Programme of children in contact or conflict with the law through norms, values and…