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Rights of the child / Statements / Uruguay / 2013 / November

Uruguay: OMCT’S juvenile justice recommendations on the UPR pre-session on Uruguay


 Geneva, 27/11/13- Today OMCT and its national partner in Uruguay IELSUR, with the support of the Committee on Rights of the Child in Uruguay and Save the Children, have presented its recommendations in the pre-session meeting to the Universal Periodic Review of Uruguay. OMCT has highlighted the importance of substantial legislative and policy changes concerning deprivation of liberty of children in Uruguay, and the need to ensure accountability and non-repetition of acts of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment against children.

The following are OMCT’s recommendations on Juvenile Justice:

  • Measures should be taken to substantially improve child protection standards in the current legislation and to eliminate legal initiatives that go against international standards, such as the national referendum planned for 2014. Additionally the state of Uruguay should derogate the laws approved between 2008 and 2013 that affect the rights and safeguards of children, especially art.5 of the law n° 18.315[1], the law n° 18.777[2] and the law n° 19.055.[3]
  • The State of Uruguay must guarantee that the juvenile justice system is in accordance with international standards, using deprivation of liberty only as a measure of last resort, for the minimum necessary period, and always taking into account the best interest of the child. Alternative measures to deprivation of liberty should be promoted aiming a full reintegration of the child into society.
  • The Government of Uruguay should put in place safeguards for the protection of children deprived of their liberty and guarantees that all allegations of torture are object of a meaningful, diligent, impartial and transparent investigation in order to ensure accountability and non-repetition.
     
  •   We recommend that the National Human Rights Institution, which is the governmental body responsible for implementing the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture, to create a working group for the protection of children against torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, with a special focus on children deprived of their liberty, including in its activities frequent monitoring visits to juvenile detention centres.

For more information and other recommendations, please see attachments.



[1] Law concerning the application of police procedures to children.

[2] Law that increases preventive detention from 60 to 90 days.

[3] Law that imposes a minimum period for deprivation of liberty of one year to certain types of crimes committed by children, going against the exceptional use of deprivation of liberty.

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Date: November 27, 2013
Activity: Rights of the Child
Type: Statements
Country: Uruguay
Subjects: Rights of the child

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  • Recomendaciones EPU Uruguay
    4 pages / 117 KB

  • UPR recommendations for Uruguay
    4 pages / 111 KB

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