Opportunities for contact between children and incarcerated parents
A survey on current practice within the German penal system Summary
A parent’s incarceration has an enormous impact on the life of a child. Maintaining contact with an incarcerated parent is a human right that the state is obligated to uphold, respect and ensure through legislation. In 2023, the CRC Monitoring Mechanism carried out an online survey total of 164 prisons (JVA: Justizvollzugsanstalten). The survey results are presented in this summary.
The interdisciplinary study is the result of a project on children’s rights in development policy at the German Institute for Human Rights between 2012 and 2014. The study is based on legal analysis of children’s participation rights and a social science…
Development cooperation requires data in order to plan its projects or programmes, to monitor them and to measure their results. A particular challenge is posed by the collection of data when children are the target group of the development cooperation…
This summary for development practitioners provides: information on the topic of General Comment No. 1 and its legal foundation, an overview of the Committee’s key recommendations addressed to States parties, key contents of General Comment No. 1,…
We use cookies. Some are necessary for the website to function, others help us to improve the website. In order to meet our own data protection requirements, we only collect anonymised user data with ‘Matomo’. We also integrate external content to make our website more appealing to you.
