IJJO / International Juvenile Justice Observatory

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IJJO / International Juvenile Justice Observatory

International - 18 - 19 June 2008. Event recognized of Public and Cultural Interest in Costa Rica. Preparatory activity for the XVIII Cumbre Iberoamericana.

Within the framework of the plenary session of the Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) UN ECOSOC, which will take place in New York in July 2008, the Regional Innovation Conference 'Youth: the Core of Sustainable Development' organized by Fundación Diagrama together with the UN-DESA-NGO Section of ECOSOC, with the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport of Costa Rica and the participation of ILANUD and the International Juvenile Justice Observatory, will focus on the relationship between Sustainable Development and Youth.

AMR Regional Innovation Fair Conference offers a unique opportunity to gather a variety of involved experts, civil society members, of the academic world and the private sector, in order to promote sustainable development. The Conference will cover the following topics:

* Subjet 1: The Impact of Sustainable Development on Youth.
* Subjet 2: Youth Sustainable Development : Innovations.

IJJO / International Juvenile Justice Observatory

International - On the 21^st and 22^nd October 2008, the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) together with the County Council of Justice and Public Administrations of the Generalitat Valenciana (Spain), have the pleasure to organise the III International IJJO Conference, which will be titled: "Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe: current situation, trends in applicable models and good practices".

This International Conference, framed in the AGIS European Project, will be developed according to the two following axes:

* Subjet 1: Comparative analysis of juvenile justice systems in Europe: current situation and trends in applicable models.
* Subjet 2: Good practices and recommendations applicable on juvenile justice systems.

IJJO / International Juvenile Justice Observatory

United Nations - During the 17th session of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) in Vienna, the Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice organised a plenary session called: Advocacy, legal and policy strategies to address violence experienced by children in justice systems. This session counted on the participation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Defence for Children International (DCI) - The Netherlands, the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) and Penal Reform International (PRI).

IJJO / International Juvenile Justice Observatory

National, Mexico - Olga María del Carmen Sánchez Cordero de García Villegas, Minister of the Supreme Justice Court of Mexico explains thoroughly the development of the ‘Federal Juvenile Justice Law’ of April 25th 2006.

Through her experience and knowledge in the field of legislation, Olga María considers the integral protection of the children and adolescents’ rights as an essential element in this legislation and analyses the current situation of the minor in this legislative context.

José Luis Graña Gómez, Vicente Garrido Genovés and Luis González Cieza

Spain - The general aim of this study is to characterize those minors in detention centres from the Madrid Community Agency for the Re-education and Re-insertion of Young Offenders according to their delinquent characteristics, and at the same time, validate an instrument known as IGI-J (Inventory for the Management and Intervention with Young People), which allows us to evaluate static and dynamic risk factors to explain delinquent behaviour, as well as to develop educational-therapeutic intervention objectives.