Justice for Children Policy Brief Launch! Digital Justice for Children

Inspiring Children’s Futures is delighted to announce the launch of the Working Group on SDG16+ Justice for Children Policy Brief: Digital Justice for Children.

In 2022, the SDG16+ Working Group on Justice for Children published the Justice for Children Agenda for Action to implement change across four key strategic levers needed to accelerate change for children:

1. Building new types of partnerships, including intergenerational networks.

2. Developing strategies for smarter financing; building the case to shift investment to children’s inclusion and well-being, and the political support for prevention.

3. Using evidence and data to steer child-centred reforms, including disaggregated data, child friendly methodologies and child-centred views to drive change.

4. Scaling up justice innovations, and applying imagination and safeguards for digital justice tools with children.

This Policy Brief on Digital Justice for Children builds on strategic lever 4 to alert policymakers and justice professionals to the potential impacts of uncritically applying technologies in digital justice spaces which include children, and outlines a set of prompting questions and recommendations for policymakers and supporting bodies engaged in policy processes related to justice with, and for, children.

This Policy Brief’s has been developed by the Global Initiative on Justice With Children - led by Terre des hommes Foundation, in collaboration with Penal Reform International, The International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates (IAYFJM), and The Child Rights Institute (IDE) – in partnership with the Working Group on SDG16+ Justice for Children and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

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