Human Rights

Advocates are increasingly looking to human rights laws and standards to support their work. NJJN's policy brief provides an overview of ways in which several of these international instruments can and have been used. There is also a growing campaign for US ratification of the Covenant on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The CRC contains many provisions of particular relevance to juvenile justice.

Resources

		Campaign for US Ratification of the CRC
		Human Rights as a Catalyst for Juvenile Justice Reform
		Juvenile Justice and the Convention on the Rights of the Child - General Comment 10 from the Committee on the Rights of the Child
		Overview of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
		The Convention on the Rights of the Child
		Bush Administration Report to U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, May 2008
		Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination's Findings, 2008
		US juvenile justice advocates' "shadow report" to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
		Using the Convention on the Rights of the Child to Press for Domestic Reform, April 19, 2007 Teleconference with Jaap Doek, Bernadine Dohrn, and Shay Bilchik
		Writing "shadow reports" to UN committees -- how advocates can use the process to support their cause.

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