Juvenile justice and childrens' rights: achievements and challenges ahead
Semestre d’été 2019
Cycle de conférences - Lecture series
Juvenile justice and children’s rights: achievements and challenges ahead
La justice juvénile en évolution – Impact des droits de l’enfant sur les systèmes de justice juvénile en Europe et dans le monde »
Sous le patronage du Ministère de la Justice
Avec le soutien financier du Fonds National de la Recherche (RESCOM 12978913)
Avec le soutien du Parquet général
Coorganisé par Prof. Silvia Allegrezza, « Faculté de Droit, d'Économie et de Finance » (FDEF) et Charel Schmit, Faculté des Lettres, des Sciences humaines, des Arts et des Sciences de l'Education (FLSHASE) dans le cadre du Bachelor en sciences sociales et éducatives et du Master II in European Economics and Financial Criminal Law (DPEA) et la « Chaire UNESCO en droits de l’homme » à l’Université du Luxembourg
En partenariat avec l’ORK- Ombuds-Comité pour les Droits de l'Enfant
la Commission consultative des droits de l’homme CCDH
la Commission luxembourgeoise pour la coopération avec l’UNESCO
le Barreau de Luxembourg
la CNDE Coalition Nationale des Droits de l’Enfants a.s.b.l.
l’ANCES - Association Nationale des Communautés Éducatives et Sociales a.s.b.l. dans le cadre du projet Interreg « Eur&Qua »
et l’ALC - Association Luxembourgeoise de Criminologie a.s.b.l.
Lectures will be held in English, German or French according to title
On following dates: Monday 14h30-16h00/17h30: 25th March, 1st April, 29th April, 6th May, 13th May, 20th May
Salle de conference BC 1.38.– Palais de Justice – Bâtiment central – Cité judiciaire Luxembourg
Adresse : 18, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, 1475 Luxembourg
Please register, Places are limited: socia.mirandola a uni.lu
- Contact and registration: Séverine Mariani T.: (+352) 46 66 44 6989
- Possibility to receive a certificate of participation.
Opening Lecture – 25 March 2019 - 14h30-16h00
- Welcome message from the Ministry of Justice
- Justice Renate Winter “Mehrwert Kinderrechte! Kinder und ein kindergerechtes Justizsystem. “
- Renate Winter, Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child at the United Nations (Geneva) 2017-2022.
- Author/contributor to the Draft Model Law on Juvenile Justice. Former youth justice in Austria.
- Justice Renate WINTER is Chairperson of the Committee of the Right of the Child at the United Nations (Geneva). Justice Winter was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Special Court for Sierra Leone in 2002. She served as its Acting President from March to May 2004 and in May 2008, she was elected President. She is the current president of the RSCSL (Residual Court of Sierra Leone). In 1981, Judge Winter became a judge at the Vienna Youth Court, where she undertook projects to help rehabilitate youths with problems of drug addiction and mental disability. Justice Winter has also worked for the United Nations on projects related to youth and child soldiers, including in numerous African and Latin America countries, and has dealt with issues of organized crime and restorative justice. Justice Winter served as an international judge of the Supreme Court of Kosovo, as part of the United Nations interim civilian administration. Throughout the 1990s, Judge Winter chaired numerous international conferences on matters relating to juvenile justice and gender-related justice issues. She is the former President of the International Association of Youth and Family Court Judge and she is currently working with UNODC on terrorist matters concerning children.