Terre des hommes co-organises the 2018 World Congress on Justice for Children: “Strengthening Justice Systems for Children: Challenges, including disengagement from violent extremism”, which will be held at the UNESCO House in Paris, France from 28th to 30th May 2018.

Each year, more than half a million children in Europe come in contact with the law. To help them understand the legal proceedings and their rights, Terre des hommes worked with young people to develop StoryLab, an innovative mobile game that guides young players through the workings of the legal system.

This programme was developed by Romanian experts Mihaela Sasarman and Andrei Chişcu and contains 20 topics focused on the most frequent behaviors experienced by children, being provided for application during one academic year.

The purpose of this guidebook is to prevent juvenile delinquency among preadolescent and adolescent children, and it is addressed to psychologists working in schools and psycho-pedagogical assistance services.

This Handbook responds to one of the major needs of the juvenile justice system - that of changing children’s criminal behaviours. Delinquent behaviour amongst children is the outcome of multiple risk factors, given that the protection measures that have been taken proved to be insufficient. 

As a result of the advocacy efforts of Terre des hommes Moldova, which elaborated a regulatory concept and a proposal of legislative amendments on the status of the child under the age of criminal liability that committed criminal offenses, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Moldova came with a legislative initiative in November 2017, consisting from a special draft-law that addresses the issue through a series of complex solutions.

On October 19, 2017, the Ombudsman Institution from the Republic of Moldova, in partnership with Terre des hommes Moldova, organized a conference addressing the legal status of the child who has committed a criminal offense, but did not reach the age of criminal liability.

The Human Dimension Seminar brought together more than 100 representatives of governments, international organizations and civil society for an exchange of views and information regarding children in situations of risk, particularly in the context of deprivation of liberty and trafficking.

Research findings from Terre des hommes' project "Procedural Rights of Juveniles Suspected or Accused in the European Union" (PRO-JUS) have been featured in the July 2017 edition of the Chronicle of the International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates (IAYFJM).

Deadline for application: 25 Aug 2017
Country(s) that the job is based in: International
Organisation: Alternative Ways to Address Youth (AWAY) project
Job type: legal expert

Terre des hommes, in collaboration with Brave Phone (Croatia), Program for the Development of the Judicial System (Bulgaria), Defense for Children International (Belgium), International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) (Belgium), Terre des hommes Helvetia (Romania), and The Global Network for Public Interest Law – PILNET (Hungary) , are commencing a task financed by the European Union, titled (‘AWAY’) which emphasizes on the concept of diversion within the area of juvenile justice.