Topic: Juvenile Justice System
Why Blame Children for Adult Crime?
May 25, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
What level of callous cruelty does it take to put children as young as six or twelve-year-old behind bars? That is the way it was in the Philippines until the passing of the Juvenile Justice Welfare Bill (RA 9344) in 2006.
Read More...Two Minor Boys on the road of Execution in PAKISTAN
April 4, 2003 ·
Two minor boys, Muhammad Rafique and Sohail Fida are on death row having been awarded capital punishment by a court in the Swat district of Pakistan. Though capital punishment is abolished in Pakistan, under Pakistan’s Juvenile Justice System Ordinance 2002, these two minor boys do not fall under the jurisdiction of the ordinance and are […]
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