Partners
Penal Reform International (PRI) – Project coordinator
Penal Reform International (PRI) is an NGO working globally to promote criminal justice systems that uphold human rights for all and do no harm. Through research, advocacy, and practical programs, helps make criminal justice systems non-discriminatory and effective and protect the rights of all. With over 30 years of experience, PRI is a trusted partner for actors throughout criminal justice systems in Europe and beyond, from national and regional authorities to policymakers, academics and global bodies, like the United Nations. In Europe, PRI has since 1989 been involved in the promotion of better detention conditions and adoption of alternatives to imprisonment, bringing countries in line with European standards and promoting the equal rights of marginalised prisoners and those in particular situations of vulnerability, including children, girls and LGBTQI+ persons in conflict with the law.
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London
The Green House
244-254 Cambridge Heath Road
London
E2 9DA
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 203 559 6752
The Hague
The Hague Humanity Hub
Fluwelen Burgwal 58
2511 CJ Den Haag
Netherlands
Tierra de Hombres (TdH Spain)
Tierra de Hombres (TdH Spain), as part of the International Terre des Hommes federation, has strong expertise on access to justice for children and brings an international network of experts, academics and policy makers involved in justice related matters for children and young adults to the project. As partner of the Global Initiative on Justice with Children and co-organiser of the World Congress on Justice with Children, the TdH advocacy programme promotes fair justice for children in Europe and worldwide.
Terre des Hommes Romania (TdH Romania)
Terre des Hommes Romania (TdH Romania) supports vulnerable children and their families, regardless of their ethnic background, religion or political affiliation. Aiming to make sustainable improvements to the living conditions and development of the most vulnerable children and defend their rights as defined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, it runs a number of access to justice projects to enhance procedural safeguards for children and to support the rehabilitation of children in detention, child victims and children suspected and/ or accused of crime and develops specific methodologies and tools for professionals who work with children in conflict with the law. The goal is to implement child friendly practices and provide support with an emphasis on improved mental health and resilience. Benefitting around 10,000 children and young people each year, and with more than 30 years of experience with helping children in Romania overcome situations that make them vulnerable (poverty, migration, contact with the justice system), TdH Romania’s core activities include research, knowledge-building, advocacy, child participation and youth empowerment.
Global Initiative on Justice With Children
The Global Initiative on Justice With Children (JWC) is an initiative thataddresses the most current issues related to the rights of children andadolescents in contact and/or conflict with justice systems. It is led by the Terre des hommes Foundation, in partnership with PenalReform International (PRI), and the International Association of Youth andFamily Judges and Magistrates (IAYFJM). The Global initiative connects professionals from around the world and serves as a global landmark through World Congresses, as well as regional and national advisorymeetings. The Global Initiative's priorities for the future are based on the outcomes ofthe 2021 World Congress on Justice with Children. The priorities includeensuring digital justice, Justice in times of crises, Comunity empowerment,Neurosciences and child justice and ending child detention.
The Social Activities and Practices Institute (SAPI)
The Social Activities and Practices Institute (SAPI) The Social Activities and Practices Institute (SAPI) is a non-governmental organisation, working for more than 20 years to guarantee respect for the rights of children in Bulgaria by participating in child and family-related policy development, providing social services for children and families, developing and implementing programs and activities for vocational training, and providing methodological support and supervision for professionals from the child protection system and people from the helping professions. With an in-depth understanding of the Bulgarian context for VAC, children’s rights and child protection and strong expertise and experience with direct work with children in conflict with the law, SAPI also brings to the table existing relationships with Bulgarian juvenile justice system actors and prior experience from working with varied public authorities in the country. Research, training and capacity building -core project activities- are key areas of SAPI’s expertise.
Associated partners
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (the project’s Associated Partner) is one of two public universities in Lisbon and the best ranked Portuguese university in QS Ranking 50 under 50, partnering on the current project through the interdisciplinary research centre (CICS.NOVA FCSH) of its School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Through its research staff, particularly Maria João Leote de Carvalho, NOVA supports the project and its aims through research excellence, commitment to interdisciplinary, human-rights driven services, and in-depth, widely recognised expertise on children’s rights, justice for and with children, and social and contextual issues impacting at-risk or marginalised social groups (e.g. children, youth, women and girls, migrants, ethnic groups and detainees), including violence and poverty. It also brings to the table extensive experience with criminal and juvenile justice stakeholder engagement and collaboration nationally and internationally.
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International Advisory Board
Child Advisory Board
