Preventable tragedy in Panama--unnecessary deaths and rights violations in juvenile detention centers
By: report submitted to the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child for its 57th session by Harvard International Human Rights Clinic, Alianza Ciudadana Pro Justicia, Asamblea Ciudadana de Panamá = Tragedia preventable en Panamá--muertes innecesarias y violaciones de derechos en centros juveniles de detención / informe presentado al Comité de los Derechos del Niño de las Naciones Unidas para su sesión 57 por Clínica Internacional de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad de Harvard, Alianza Ciudadana Pro Justicia, Asamblea Ciudadana de Panamá
Contributors: Alianza Ciudadana Pro Justicia; Asamblea Ciudadana de Panamá
Publisher: International Human Rights Clinic, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Children; Legal status, laws; Administration of Juvenile justice; Human rights
Other titles: Tragedia preventable en Panamá--muertes innecesarias y violaciones de derechos en centros juveniles de detención
Description: Based on visits to detention centers, and interviews with detainees and government officials. It includes a legal analysis, which describes Panama's obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, among other international standards, and concludes that Panama has failed to protect the rights of juvenile detainees and has subjected them to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.
Notes: Title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 15, 2011).

Preserved in the OCLC Digital Archive. Harvested from http://harvardhumanrights.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/panama-juvenile-detention-alianza-asamblea-harvard-6-20.pdf on Aug. 20, 2011.

"May, 2011."

"Submitted to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Review of the State of Panama, Geneva, June 2011"--P. 1.

Also available in Spanish language.

Includes bibliographical references.

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