Administration of juvenile justice
Recommended measures (4)
35. The Committee welcomes the amendments to the Execution of Sentences Act abolishing the possibility of using isolation as a disciplinary measure. With reference to its general comment No. 10 (2007) on children’s rights in juvenile justice, the Committee urges the State party to bring its juvenile justice system fully into line with the Convention and other relevant standards. In particular, the Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Discontinue preventive detention for children.
(b) Where detention is unavoidable, ensure that children are not detained together with adults, both in pretrial detention and after being sentenced, and, in line with the Committee’s previous recommendations, withdraw the reservation to article 10 (2) (b) and (3), of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, “with regard to the obligation to keep accused juvenile persons and juvenile offenders segregated from adults” (CRC/C/NOR/CO/4, para. 7).
(c) Strengthen safeguards to ensure that isolation as a preventive measure is avoided to the greatest extent possible.
(d) Make the necessary legislative amendments to extend the application of the alternative form of sanction, the so-called juvenile sanction, to asylum-seeking children.