A/HRC/14/34 health.32 The publication is based on the principles and recommendations of the Kyiv Declaration on Women’s Health in Prison, adopted following a conference in November 2008 co-organized by, inter alia, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The Declaration stresses that “the underlying importance of human rights should underpin all thinking and all policy development for all those in compulsory detention”. Although focused on European countries, the Health in Prison Project could be replicated in other regions of the world. 29. Recent years have also seen the continued rolling out of a set of 15 juvenile justice indicators (together with a manual for implementation) developed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and UNODC in 2006 together with a manual.33 Roll-out took place in the South East Asia region in 2008 and the Middle East and North African regions in 2009.34 30. The Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice (IPJJ) continued to facilitate and enhance country and global level coordination in the provision of technical advice and assistance in juvenile justice in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other relevant norms and standards.35 Mandated by the Economic and Social Council,36 the IPJJ has, since 2008, encouraged States to adopt a comprehensive approach to juvenile justice reform in a manner that upholds the rights of the child in contact with the justice system, in line with the Secretary-General’s Guidance Note on the United Nations Approach to Justice for Children. The Panel’s work includes increasing the availability of existing technical resources on juvenile justice (primarily through its website, www.juvenilejusticepanel.org) and building and maintaining a juvenile justice expert roster, a revised version of which was developed in 2008 and published online in early 2009. 31. In October 2008 the Ninth International Conference of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, held in Nairobi, focused on the role of national human rights institutions in the administration of justice. The Conference adopted a Declaration which identifies the main areas and means by which National Human Rights Institutions in exercising their mandates can work to strengthen the administration of justice 32 33 34 35 36 10 WHO, Geneva: 2009. “Manual for the Measurement of Juvenile Justice Indicators” (2006). UNICEF Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (UNICEF CEE/CIS), “The Development of Juvenile Justice Systems in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Lessons from Albania, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Ukraine”, July 2009: UNICEF CEE/CIS, “Regional and International Indicators on Juvenile Justice: Their Applicability and Relevance in Selected Countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia”, 2009. The Panel is currently composed of 14 members — 7 United Nations bodies and 7 non-governmental organizations — that work to ensure that child justice systems comply with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international norms and standards: the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Institute (UNICRI), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Defence for Children International (DCI), the International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates, the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO), Penal Reform International (PRI), Save the Children UK, Terre des hommes – Aide à l’enfance (Tdh) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT). In 2007, the Panel established a permanent Secretariat to further develop, strengthen and support the work of its members, and in 2008 the Panel accepted three new members: the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, the International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates and the International Juvenile Justice Observatory. See ECOSOC resolutions 1997/30 and 2007/23. GE.10-13137

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