The terms youth, adolescent or juvenile are also used in the legal terminology.

The Code of Children and Adolescents

Children's and Adolescents' Code, Young Persons Act.

The Committee welcomes the establishment of a specific juvenile justice system under the Law on Juvenile Justice of 19 April 1996.

Criminal law relating to young people

38. Measures to protect children and young persons from exploitation are provided by the Juvenile Law.

It consolidated provisions of the Young Offenders (British Columbia) Act and youth provisions of the Correction Act into a comprehensive provincial statute written specifically for youth.

(k) quot La niñez y la adolescencia en conflictos con la ley penal el nuevo derecho penal juvenil un derecho para la libertad y la responsabilidad quot (Childhood and adolescence in conflict with criminal law the new juvenile penal legislation law for freedom and responsibility.

The administration of juvenile justice , 13 November 1995

Youth

364. In accordance with the Act of 26 June 1974, the Labour Code, an adolescent (young person) is a person who is over 15 and no more than 18 years of age.

(h) quot Anteproyecto de código de la niñez y la adolescencia en Guatemala quot (Draft code on childhood and adolescence in Guatemala)

Particular attention should be paid to the prevention of juvenile delinquency, the protection of the rights of children deprived of their liberty, respect for fundamental rights and legal safeguards in all aspects of the juvenile justice system and full independence and impartiality of the judiciary dealing with juveniles.

Particular attention should be paid to the prevention of juvenile delinquency, the protection of the rights of children deprived of their liberty, respect for fundamental rights and legal safeguards in all aspects of the juvenile justice system and full independence and impartiality of the judiciary dealing with juveniles.

ECA Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (Lei nº. 8.069, de 13 de julho de 1990) the Statute of Child and Adolescent

A youth project, started in 1997, will collect and analyse information on drug abuse patterns among young people and on innovative prevention approaches.

Many policy makers and parents are reluctant to accept the idea of adolescent sexuality, and the number of youth friendly services is limited.

The approval of Law No. 8.069 90, known as the Statute for Children and Adolescents, which regulates Article 227 of the Federal Constitution, was another landmark in the fight for full protection of children and adolescents in Brazil.

Yet adolescent refugees often cannot access education.

Adolescent health

Percentage of adolescents

Total juveniles

The central objective of this discussion is to fully protect children and adolescents, as established by the ECA.

It further encourages full implementation of the Juvenile Code in order to ensure proper treatment of children and adolescents by justice sector institutions.

Psychiatric and psychological assessments for the courts are conducted in the community, in the hospital or in the youth centre depending on the clinical need of the youth.

The Government stated that under the provisions of the Juveniles Act, youngsters under the age of 17 may not be detained in the same cells as adults.

The only juvenile court in Freetown is overwhelmed with cases.

255. Act No. 26102, published on 29 December 1992 and containing the Code of Children and Adolescents, designates the prostitution of children and adolescents as a form of enslavement by which the parents or guardians of the child or adolescent exploited for activities contrary to the law or public morals are deemed to have abandoned them.

Shelters for adolescents

Subsequently some juveniles who come in conflict with the law are still being treated as adults.

The Committee is concerned at the lack of adolescent health services and the large number of teenage pregnancies.

Minors apos Code (in force), Children apos s and Adolescents apos Code (draft)

There are 837 Guardianship Councils, 221 Public Prosecutor's Offices for Children and Adolescents, 202 Child and Youth Courts and 119 Municipal Councils for Women.

(a) A project on youth and juvenile justice in Myanmar, funded by a donation.

Background paper

Fertility of adolescents

11. Participated in a research project on the state of children in conflict with the law and the administration of juvenile justice.

It is also recommended that law enforcement agencies consider young people as assets in preventing juvenile crime and that youth desks be created at formal law enforcement institutions to deal with youth cases.

The Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act came into force November 1, 2004.

However, in December 2001 the President of Pakistan announced the commutation of the death sentences imposed on all 125 young offenders before the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance came into force.

5. Statutory regulations on the youth custody system are only contained in a small number of fundamental and organizational provisions of the Youth Courts Act and the Prison Act.

Among the young people native to the agriculture sector, 38 per cent of children aged 10 to 12 helped out on the farm which, with equal numbers of children per year, makes for a total of 4,500 young people.

In 1991, 15.8 per cent of new users of some form of contraception in the public health system were girls aged 15 to 19 and 0.7 per cent were girls aged 10 to 14.

Any disageements are to be resolved by the children apos s and adolescents apos judge (Article 419 CC).

Adolescent health