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Lightening The Load Of The Parental Death Penalty On Children

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This June 2013 report by the Quaker United Nations Office, compiled by Oliver Robertson and Rachel Brett, examines the impact of the death penalty on children, a group often overlooked in the criminal justice system. With a cover depicting a series of empty bowls, suggesting a chain of loss and burden, the report details how children endure traumatic consequences from their parents' arrest, trial, await execution, and post-execution. These impacts include social stigma, psychological trauma, economic vulnerability, school dropout, unstable parenting, and the risk of institutional discrimination. The report criticizes the lack of mechanisms in many countries' legal systems to consider the best interests of children when sentencing parents to death. Drawing on human rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the document offers concrete recommendations for states, correctional institutions, and the judiciary: ensuring children's rights to adequate information, access to visits, psychosocial support, identity protection, guarantees of alternative care, and consideration of the impact on children at every stage of the legal process. Aimed at policymakers, judges, prosecutors, human rights advocates, UN agencies, and child protection organizations, this four-language publication serves as an essential reference for alleviating the double burden imposed on children by parental executions and ensuring that states do not punish children for crimes they did not commit.

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362.7 ROB L

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Geneva : Quaker United Nations Office., 2013

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55 hlm; 21 cm

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English

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362.7

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Advocacy
Violence against children
Psychological trauma
Economic vulnerability

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