THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION,
Recognizing that children are described as our future, our greatest resource
and our hope for better tomorrow,
Realizing that treating juveniles as adults is going too far,
Deeply regretting that many of juveniles are incarcerated for their crimes, they are often easy victims of homosexual rape and other form of violence at the hands of hundreds of adult criminals,
Taking into account the following reasons for increase of the number
of juvenile offenders:
a) lower socio-economic status (SES) of families,
b) the increase of the number of fatherless children,
c) contemporary environment including drug addiction, the abuse of alcohol,
bad neighborhood conditions,
d) genetic tendencies and birth complications
e) abuse and neglect in families,
f) racial persecution,
g) juvenile prostitution,
h) easy access to weapons kept in families,
i) media influence involving the link between the amount of violence on television
and amount of violence in society and how it is possible that the effects of
TV violence on youngsters may be very strong,
j) the decrease of social morality in society;
Declaring that our main target is not the punishment of juvenile offenders but the removal of factors which compel them to offence,
1. Draws the attention that further juvenile offences can only be halted
by means of global education about the delinquency and measures of its punishment;
2. Urges to encourage the establishment of specialized centers for homeless
children and refugees to escape minor offences;
3. Recommends to provide juvenile offenders with psychological and vocational
counseling centers and rehabilitation centers;
4. Requests that UN organizations as well as other international organizations
help willing nations build psychological, vocational and rehabilitation centers
for all juveniles by providing:
a) financial aid
b) information on how to train workers and counselors;
5. Recommends mass media to contribute to the questions of juvenile delinquency:
a) by punishing the examples of juvenile delinquency and measures taken to punish
offenders in newspapers and internet, while not allowing the name of any juvenile
to be published,
b) by broadcasting the programs giving the information about the juvenile justice
system
c) by introducting "family viewing time";
6. Resolves to treat and rehabilitate youngsters who became involved
in delinquency by methods of:
a) community treatment (placing the child on probation of under the supervision
of an officer
b) residential treatment (rural programs),
c) nonresidential treatment (living at home and receiving treatment from mental
health clinics),
d) institutionalizing (increasing in a secure facility and denying freedom)
e) penalty;
7. Encourages the exchange of the experience between states on the problem
of juvenile delinquency:
a) by holding the forums, conferences, seminars, lectures
b) by developing the exchange of the employers between juvenile justice courts;
8. To ask rehabilitate centers for juvenile offenders to provide youngsters
involved in delinquency with:
a) education
b) recreation
c) employment
d) good life conditions for daily activities;
9. Further recommends the member-states to spread juvenile delinquency
prevention educational programs ant lectures in schools and colleges;
10. Asks that mass media attempt, in the future, to be more responsible
in its programming, i.e. by not airing violent or sexually explicit programming
at times when juveniles are likely to be watching;
11. Suggests WHO to work out compulsory tests on education of psychological
status of juveniles to prevent unfounded juvenile delinquency;
12. Further encourages the states to cooperate with United Nations Children
Emergency Fund, United Development Program (UNDP), World Health Organization
(WHO), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
and World Bank.