4 minutes agoUN: 7 million children deprived of freedom
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)It is estimated that 7 million children are not at large but imprisoned in police prisons, immigrant detention centres, homes for disabled persons, social headquarters institutions, according to a United Nations study of human rights. The authors claimed their conservative assessments went against the Convention for [...]
The authors said their conservative assessments go against the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a UN pact among 200 countries allowing the detention of persons under the age of 18 as a short-term measure of the recent solution.
“Although progress has been made in recent years to address the problem, much more must be done to get children out of the stumbling institutions”, said Manfred Nowak, an Austrian researcher for the rights to the study.
It is our responsibility to give children the custody of their childhood”, he wrote.
The report warns that psychiatric disorders among children could increase tenfold during detention and that children released die much younger than those who have never been arrested.
The Nowak team found that at least 410,000 children were held in prisons every year and in detention, while 1 million were held in police custody. / A T S/
