• Medientyp: E-Book
  • Titel: Children's right to contact with their incarcerated parent : chapter 5 of the report to the German Federal Parliament on the development of the human rights situation in Germany : July 2016 - June 2017
  • Beteiligte: Kittel, Claudia [Verfasser:in]
  • Körperschaft: Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte ; Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte, Monitoring-Stelle UN-Kinderrechtskonvention
  • Erschienen: Berlin: German Institute for Human Rights, 2018
  • Umfang: 1 Online Ressource (16 Seiten)
  • Sprache: Englisch
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  • Beschreibung: A parent held in custody has a serious impact on a child’s well-being. It violates the right of the child to direct contact with their parents according to art. 9 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The Convention also calls for ensuring the primacy of the child’s best interests if the State intervenes – for example, through arrest – in the relationship between children and parents (art. 3 CRC). The National Monitoring Mechanism for the CRC has investigated the existing regulations on children visiting a parent taken into custody, and analyzed the penal law in the federal states. Additionally, the ministries of justice provided information through a questionnaire on relevant regulations. The analysis shows: The possibilities for children to visit their parents kept in prison vary considerably across Germany.
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