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FORUM: The Human Rights Commission QUESTION OF: Legal Procedure for the Treatment of Juvenile Offenders
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.