This roadmap is an inspiration for new laws, policies, and practices that can help States dramatically reduce the number of children behind bars and locked doors. Keeping the conversation going and monitoring the enactment of the recommendations is key to ensure that children worldwide are no longer deprived of their childhood.
Hearing from experts, researchers, and children themselves, participants will learn about steps being taken in terms of deinstitutionalisation, diversion, ending migration-related detention and other measures.
Previous Global Campus course on the Global Study: Children Deprived of Liberty: Learning from the UN Global Study.
Course Outline
The course is articulated in two modules:
Module 1 is an introduction to the UN Global Study as a framework for action. Specific attention will be paid here to the Study’s recommendations and the developing follow-up initiatives which are being enacted in cooperation with different stakeholders, from UN agencies to governments, from civil society to academia.
Module 2 is dedicated to regional perspectives and a variety of recent initiatives, examples and practices that are being implemented there. In so doing, the course specifically analyses the most relevant issues and themes in each region: from immigration detention to deinstitutionalisation, from deprivation of liberty for national security reasons, to diversion measures.
Upon completion of this course participants will have gained:
- Knowledge about key standards, documents and recommendations contained in the UN Global Study
- Understanding of progress and obstacles in terms of more viable measures of implementation, from the point of view of UN agencies, states, civil society and other affected rights-holders, in particular children
- Ability to identify multi-faceted aspects (pros and cons of each side of the matter)
- Capacity to discuss specific regional issues and groups/cases of concern