Mr. Francisco Romero Blasco expose et décrit de façon exhaustive la situation actuelle de la violence enfant-parent en Espagne. Les modèles de la famille, les politiques nationales et le comportement perturbateur du mineur sont quelques éléments fondamentaux soulignés dans l’interview thématique OIJJ.

Since April 2009, a group of experts in the field of juvenile justice and children’s rights has been working on the preparation of these European guidelines. The International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) and at European level, the European JuvenileJustice Observatory (EJJO), are among the several organizations that make up this Group of Specialists on child-friendly justice. The objective of the Group of Specialists is to produce comprehensive guidelines on child-friendly justice, which will assist member states in ensuring that children have favourable access to justice.

The guidelines should contribute to improving the treatment of the child in all circumstances where he or she is, for whatever reason, likely to be brought into contact with civil, administrative or criminal justice. To this end, the guidelines should build on the existing national, European and international standards and make substantial references to the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

In the past month of January, as part of the European network 'Ex-Offenders Community of Practice (ExOCoP)', in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Labour and the Italian Institute for the Development of Vocational Training for Workers (ISFOL), the IJJO and nine European entities, including the European Prison Education Association (EPEA) and the European Juvenile Justice Observatory (EJJO), participated in a work session focusing on the integration and social inclusion of young offenders.

The International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) has the honour of highlighting the publication 'European Rules for Juvenile Offenders Subject to Sanctions or Measures', produced by the Council of Europe subsequent to Recommendation Rec(2008) 11 adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.

In December 2009 the European Council adopted the multi-annual Programme for the period 2010-2014, highlighting the importance of developing an open and secure Europe serving the citizen, reinforcing the democratic character of the European Union which essentially benefits its citizens.

The International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) points out the relevance of the development of common strategies to provide an adequate response to the situation of minors in conflict with the law among the objectives of the European Union. Therefore, last year, within the initiative of the European Commission to consult the civil society regarding the future priorities for 2010-2014, the IJJO had proposed some recommendations in the field of liberty, security and justice, and juvenile justice.

On December 16th 2009, the International Juvenile Justice Observatory awarded the "JUVENILE JUSTICE WITHOUT FRONTIERS GRANT" at Brussels City Hall, Belgium. The JUVENILE JUSTICE WITHOUT FRONTIERS GRANT aimed at support and recognize the work of an expert in Juvenile Justice and to provide a global framework for measuring and presenting specific information about the situation of children in conflict with the law.This year, the IJJO has conceived this grant to develop some specific indicators about juvenile justice in Europe.

This grant has been developed with the great support of the Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme of the European Commission- Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security-.

'Preventing Crime and Victimisation among Children and Young People. Current and future challenges – school, cyberspace and recruitment to criminal groups is the title of the Annual conference organized by the European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN).

This event brought together about 200 policy-makers, practititioners and researchers from 24 Member States and European organizations.

The development of strategies that improve the intervention with conflictive minors in an intra-family and socio-educational context is one of the objectives of the training seminar that took place last November at Cordoba (Spain). The Provincial Delegation for Justice and Public Administration of the Ministry of Andalusia, aware of the social questions about the phenomena of conflicts caused by minors, both in their family and social situation as within the school, asked for the participation of the IJJO.

'Two decades of Juvenile Justice. Improvements since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child' is the name of the new campaing launched by the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (OJJO) within the framework of the twentieth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

By means of this campaign, the OJJO provides a global retrospective vision of the evolution of the juvenile justice systems since the adoption of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. The campaign includes contributions of important figures in the field of children's rights promotion, providing their perspectives, expectations and an analysis of the current state of the protection of the rights of minors in situation of exclusion and seclusion.

In spite of the progress and evolution of the juvenile justice system reforms in Central and Eastern European and Central Asian countries, Unicef highlights the importance and need of sustainable progress and development of the family intervention measures and alternatives to detention in Albania, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Ukraine.

This report, elaborated by UNICEF, does an exhaustive analysis of the situation of minors in conflict with the law, underlining recurrent problems like prolonged pre trial detention, unacceptable life conditions and often detention with adults.