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− | * 1. Effective access to justice for every person with disabilities is ensured on an equal basis with others, including through the provision of procedural and age-appropriate accommodations, in order to facilitate their direct and indirect participation, including as witnesses, in all legal proceedings, including at investigative and other preliminary stages. | + | * 1. Effective access to justice for every person with disabilities is ensured on an equal basis with others, including through the provision of procedural and age-appropriate accommodations, in order to facilitate their direct and indirect participation, including as witnesses, in all legal proceedings, including at investigative and other preliminary stages.<ref> CRPD, Art. 13.</ref> |
− | * 2. Every juvenile offender is segregated from adults and accorded treatment appropriate to his or her age and legal status. | + | * 2. Every juvenile offender is segregated from adults and accorded treatment appropriate to his or her age and legal status.<ref>ICCPR, Art. 10; CRC, Art. 40;International Convention on the Protection of All Migrant Workers and Membersof Their Families (CMW), Art. 18.</ref> |
* 3. Laws, procedures, authorities and institutions specifically applicable to children accused of or recognized as having infringed the law are promoted and established, in particular: | * 3. Laws, procedures, authorities and institutions specifically applicable to children accused of or recognized as having infringed the law are promoted and established, in particular: | ||
A minimum age below which children are presumed not to have the capacity to infringe the law; | A minimum age below which children are presumed not to have the capacity to infringe the law; | ||
− | Whenever appropriate and desirable, measures for dealing with such children without resorting to judicial proceedings, providing that human rights and legal safeguards are fully respected. | + | Whenever appropriate and desirable, measures for dealing with such children without resorting to judicial proceedings, providing that human rights and legal safeguards are fully respected.<ref> CRC, Art. 40.</ref> |
− | * 4. Every juvenile alleged as or accused of having infringed the law has the right to have his or her privacy[ | + | * 4. Every juvenile alleged as or accused of having infringed the law has the right to have his or her privacy<ref>The right to privacy does not mean excluding parents from the proceedings. See Committee on the Rights of theChild, General Comment No. 10: Children's Rights in Juvenile Justice, paras.23g, 23l, 9 Feb. 2007. "Privacy" means, among other things, that "[n]o information shall be published that may lead to the identification of a child offender" and that "court and other hearings of a child in conflict with the law should be conducted behind closed doors." Id.xvii CRC, Art. 40.</ref> fully respected at all stages of the proceedings. |
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Revision as of 16:17, 9 June 2010
- 1. Effective access to justice for every person with disabilities is ensured on an equal basis with others, including through the provision of procedural and age-appropriate accommodations, in order to facilitate their direct and indirect participation, including as witnesses, in all legal proceedings, including at investigative and other preliminary stages.[1]
- 2. Every juvenile offender is segregated from adults and accorded treatment appropriate to his or her age and legal status.[2]
- 3. Laws, procedures, authorities and institutions specifically applicable to children accused of or recognized as having infringed the law are promoted and established, in particular:
A minimum age below which children are presumed not to have the capacity to infringe the law; Whenever appropriate and desirable, measures for dealing with such children without resorting to judicial proceedings, providing that human rights and legal safeguards are fully respected.[3]
- 4. Every juvenile alleged as or accused of having infringed the law has the right to have his or her privacy[4] fully respected at all stages of the proceedings.[5]