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SUMMARY:Working with Young Women and Girls
DESCRIPTION:Working with girls and young women who have been drawn into the criminal justice system comes with a set of unique challenges. In a criminal justice system dominated by and designed for men\, the low number of young women and girls can lead to relative invisibility in the system. \n“Working with Young Women and Girls” features Susan Batchelor\, Senior Lecturer In the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow\, and Michele Burman\, Professor of Criminology in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow. Drawing from their in-depth experience and research working in the field\, these panelists will present on Scotland’s distinctive approach to young people who offend; discuss the challenges of working with justice-involved young women and girls; provide insights into best practices for working with young women and girls\, and; develop a case for feminist youth justice.The event will be moderated by Dui Hua Fellow Rebekah Enoch. \nPlease register for this event to receive Zoom meeting details.
URL:https://girlsjustice.org/event/workingwithjusticeinvoledgirls/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sex Trafficking of Girls
DESCRIPTION:Trafficking is one of the most insidious and common threats faced by at-risk girls. It is an issue that spans the globe and has recently attracted media attention\, particularly the trafficking of young girls in Asia and the United States.  \nCoordinator of the San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking Antonia Lavine spoke about the trafficking of girls in Europe with an emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe and the legal frameworks in these regions. She particularly noted that through the European Union\, legislation around sex trafficking had been standardized across Europe. Now\, pursuing and prosecuting traffickers is easier than it is in the United States. Antonia stressed the need to address the fact that demand supplies the fuel for this global market. In order to effectively address the issue\, we have to look at the root causes of the market and the economic reasons girls get sucked in. \nJudge Susan Breall spoke about trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area and her role as a Judge in the Superior Court of San Francisco working with girls who have been trafficked or are sex workers and trying to help them find way out.  She said her work has been especially hard during COVID. Her normal approach to connecting with the girls had to change to accommodate social distancing while the pimps and other facilitators of sexual exploitation had moved the girls to online platforms\, changing how law enforcement does their work.   \nNew York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof spoke about his experience with the sex trafficking of girls in Asia and how this issue has become a focal point of his career\, sharing stories of young girls having their virginity sold in what was virtually a slave market on the streets of Cambodia. He linked economic issues for families around the world as the biggest causal factor for why girls end up on the streets\, whether it was poverty or abuse\, and made the argument that social services have a huge role to play in keeping girls off the streets.  \n“If we could reduce child poverty in half\, that would make a real dent in some of these underlying causes\, underlying pipelines. I hope that we\, as a country will be able to move forward on that as just about every other advanced country has managed to do.” \n– Nicholas Kristof \n  \n“We have to realize that many boys in and girls and women and men in our community use this as a business because they have no other opportunities and it’s like a communal disease. It just a disease. It’s like a pandemic.”\n– Antonia Lavine \n  \n“There needs to be a multi‑disciplinary approach and a coordinated community response that’s spoken of in the Violence Against Women Act\, but the community needs to be a different model of community.”\n– Susan Breall \nIf you missed this event\, you can watch the recording here.
URL:https://girlsjustice.org/event/sex-trafficking/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210215T083000
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SUMMARY:Findings and Calls to Justice with a Focus on Indigenous Girls and Youth in Canada and Hawaii
DESCRIPTION:  \nPANELISTS\n\n\n \nChrista Big Canoe\n  \n\n\n \nMeda Chesney-Lind\n  \n\n\n \nRebekah Enoch\n\n\nChrista Big Canoe of the Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto presented on her work with Indigenous girls in conflict with the law\, discussing incarceration\, over-apprehension\, and the issue of suicide among Indigenous girls and youth in Canada. Her presentation was followed by commentary from Meda Chesney-Lind\, Past-President of the American Society of Criminology and Chair of the Department of Women’s Studies\, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Meda’s commentary covered Native Hawaiian girls and their over representation in Hawaii’s juvenile justice system. This panel was moderated by Dui Hua Fellow Rebekah Enoch. \nBig Canoe’s presentation delved into the systematic abuse\, exploitation\, and neglect experienced by Indigenous communities in Canada. She broached such topics as institutional persecution\, generational trauma\, the continued negative affects of outdated legal structures targeting Indigenous people\, and psycho-social well being. Drawing on her work with the Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto and as Lead Commission Counsel to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls\, she spoke about the need for dialogue that leads to meaningful change in the form of policy while also highlighting the ongoing damage done by legal systems that are designed to control\, rather than serve\, Indigenous communities. \nMeda Chesney-Lind joined to offer commentary about parallel trends and treatment in Hawaii. Citing similar trends\, such as over-policing\, Chesney-Lind’s commentary took audiences on a brief journey through Hawaii’s recent colonial history. From the imprisonment of Queen Lili’uokalani to today’s system where prison guards struggle to even pronounce the names of the Indigenous prisoners they monitor\, this presentation reflected the continued challenges presented by inadequate justice systems shaped by the vestiges of colonial attitudes. \nHere are some key takeaways from the event: \n“When children are removed from their homes\, their community\, when they lose their language\, when they lose their culture\, they have an increased chance of experiencing interactions with the criminal justice system.” – Christa Big Canoe \n  \n“When we hear from the victims and survivors of missing and murdered women or disappeared women or those who experienced the harm\, empowering them to share their narrative is important because the story comes from their perspective. But if we refuse to listen\, if we refuse to hear what also they recommend or some of the solutions and to put those solutions into place\, then we’re not moving the needle. We’re just listening to stories\, and it’s important to listen to stories\, but we have to be able to actually create the change.” \n  \n“…we’re seeing..a huge percentage of girls involved in suicidal [behavior]\, self‑mutilation\, arguing with staff. That’s because there was nothing [to do] during the time that we were there looking at the detention facility. Girls were spending inordinate amounts of time\, just sitting on the grass\, around\, doing nothing. Then when they did get to do something\, it was often to prepare meals for the boys and for the staff.” – Meda Chesney-Lind \n  \nMATERIALS
URL:https://girlsjustice.org/event/findings-and-calls-to-justice-with-a-focus-on-indigenous-girls-and-youth-in-canada/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Girls in Justice: Photographer Richard Ross in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Artist\, activist\, and photographer Richard Ross sat down with Assistant District Attorney Kasie Lee and social worker Michelle De Young to talk about Ross’ Juvenile-in-Justice project\, new legal approaches to helping sexually exploited girls\, and a day in the life of a social worker. This panel was moderated by Patricia Lee\, Managing Attorney for the Juvenile Division of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. \nRoss started the Juvenile-in-Justice project to help the public put a face to the youth incarcerated in the United States. His Juvenile-in-Justice project draws on interviews with over a thousand incarcerated youth in more than 300 facilities nationwide. Ross’ work emboldens the horrifying statistics behind juvenile justice in the United States through photographs and testimonials. His presentation touched on the important part art can play in advocacy and the need to engage policy makers and each other to effect lasting change.  \nAs Assistant District Attorney for the San Francisco Juvenile Unit\, Kasie Lee has informed experience with at-risk youth and girls. She spoke about the pervasiveness of sexual abuse as a precursor to incarceration for girls\, and her presentation also discussed new ordinances that are meant to target the root causes of the sexual exploitation of minors. She discussed new measures that treat sexually exploited youth as survivors\, not criminals. \nMichelle De Young is a social worker with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office Juvenile Unit. For her presentation\, she described a typical day of social work\, changing the names and details of her clients\, but communicating the stress and conflict that so many girls within the juvenile justice system face. Her presentation emphasized the difficulty girls face trying to negotiate physical and emotional abuse and a justice system that seems them as delinquents or worse. \nAll three speakers emphasized the importance of art: to depict these struggles\, to articulate gross injustice\, to move lawmakers to action\, and\, for youth in conflict with the law\, to express themselves to a world that seems to have turned its back on them. \nView selected images from Girls in Justice Gallery. \nHere are some takeaways from the event: \n“Basically\, I feel like I am a conduit telling these kids stories\, but the story that you have to tell essentially is: when you can predict that an infant boy of color in a particular zip code is more likely to go to prison than to college\, you have to be able to accept that it’s our fault more than his.” – Richard Ross \n  \n“What we see with a lot of the girls that come into the delinquency system later on in their lives is that there is this history of being foster children in the child welfare system\, a history of being abused\, severe neglect\, and abandonment.” – Kasie Lee \n  \n“First\, we have to acknowledge that this system was created from racist institutions because right now\, 99% of my clients are young people of color. Second\, we have to invest in the social capital of communities.” – Michelle DeYoung \nIf you missed this event\, you can watch the recording here. \n\n 
URL:https://girlsjustice.org/event/richard-ross-presentation-on-the-girls-in-justice-photography-project/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Girls in Conflict with the Law in Hong Kong and Guangzhou
DESCRIPTION:While Hong Kong and Guangzhou have attracted much media attention over the last few years\, one issue that has gone overlooked is the treatment of girls in the justice system. This webinar served as an in-depth discussion about girls in conflict with the law in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. \n\nThe panel included three experts on aspects of juvenile justice and moderated by Lindsay Ernst\, a clinical legal education specialist at the University of Hong Kong\, specializing in developing interdisciplinary\, experiential learning opportunities\, focusing on advancing social justice and human rights. \n\nSociology professor and Director of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Hong Kong Karen Joe Laidler discussed trends in juvenile offending in Hong Kong over a 30-year period. Presenting statistics and trends\, Laidler’s presentation also highlighted a puzzling trend: the proportion of girls 15 and under arrested is higher than their slightly older counterparts.\n\nEric Chui\, a professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences and Dean of Students at City University of Hong Kong\, presented on a unique research project where his research team worked with social workers to study Hong Kong juveniles in gangs. Filtering the research through Hirschi’s social bond theory\, Chui’s work\, while not statistically representative\, suggested that gang affiliation predicts higher rates of violent crime among boys and higher rates of theft among girls.\n\nZhang Hongwei\, Dean of the School of Humanities and a professor at the Juvenile & Family Law Research Center at Jinan University in Zhuhai\, elaborated on his previous presentation in Juvenile Incarceration: Alternatives\, describing the trends of juvenile offending in China as well as how changes to China’s civil code are trying to provide alternatives to carceral systems. His presentation also touched on the unique needs of female juvenile offenders.\n\nHere are some takeaways from the event:\n“One issue we’ve been thinking about is how and whether these declines are connected in some way with changes in how young people interact and engage with social media\, spending less time\, perhaps\, in public spaces. It gives us pause to reflect on what this means in relation to where juvenile justice policy has gone from the early 1980s throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s.” – Karen Joe Laidler\n \n“For males we find that weak parental attachments predict theft and violence. Whereas for females\, a weakened belief in the legal system predicts theft\, but not violence\, for female youth street gang members.” – Eric Chui\n \n“We are hoping over the next few years\, national legislation will enact more detailed regulations on how to implement the specialized schools for the juveniles (for reform). And we are hoping they can set up rules to officiate how to put the boys and girls into those specialized schools so that we can see how gender perspectives could be applied in the juvenile justice system.” – Zhang Hongwei\nIf you missed this event\, you can watch the recording here.
URL:https://girlsjustice.org/event/girls-in-conflict-with-the-law-in-hong-kong-and-guangzhou/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Juvenile Incarceration: Alternatives
DESCRIPTION:As calls grow for more alternatives to locking children up\, this webinar took an in-depth look at what rehabilitation actually requires. Superior Court judges Susan Breall and Roger Chan gave a joint presentation where they discussed the needs of young female offenders and new approaches that can bring about meaningful change. Dr. Zhang of Jinan University spoke on the issues facing girls in China\, as well as recent reforms to China’s civil code that signal new advancements for girls in conflict with the law. \nFollowing an introduction by moderator Judge Leonard Edwards\, Judge Breall described the failure of delinquency systems to rehabilitate girl offenders while stigmatizing them as criminals. Judge Chan provided statistics on the gender\, ages\, reasons for detention\, and lengths of stays of juvenile offenders in San Francisco before both spoke about the need for courts to act with more empathy\, creativity\, and insight when treating girls. \nRecognizing that most girls in conflict with the law are dealing varying levels of trauma\, they emphasized the need to treat girls in conflict with the law as survivors rather than offenders. Highlighting a survivor-centered approach vs. a trauma-based approach\, Judges Breall and Chan emphasized the importance of community-based solutions that focus on agency\, progress\, honesty\, and facilitating communication. \nDr. Zhang of the Juvenile & Family Law Research Center at Jinan University\, China\, focused his presentation on rates of juvenile crime in China and recent reforms in China. His presentation detailed some changes to the civil code that are meant to improve family law. While noting the great progress that has been made\, such as gender-sensitive approaches in law enforcement and detainment\, he also identified areas where improvement is still needed\, such as helping “left-behind” children. \nHere are some takeaways from the event: \n“Most girls who are arrested are arrested for non‑violent\, non‑serious crimes\, but they have been victimized in very serious and violent ways before they ever come into the juvenile justice system or the dependency system. They’ve experienced enormous trauma. Many of them are victims of sexual assault of violence by family members\, or they’ve been exposed to domestic violence in their families or [to] intimate partner violence before they ever ended up in the systems that we’re talking about.” – Judge Susan Breall \n  \n“In California in general\, there’s been a shift\, we’re trying to move more young women out of the punitive juvenile justice system and more into the social service side to receive services such as counseling and other support…to treat young women as survivors\, as opposed to being offenders.” – Judge Roger Chan \n  \n“Based on the new revision of the juvenile delinquency prevention law of 2020\, we really put a focus on the specialized school\, which is really similar to the reforming school in the United States and in other jurisdictions. Under the new laws\, the parents\, the teachers\, and the police officers could file applications to the Department of Education if they find some juveniles suspected of doing some status offense or minor crimes. They could be sent to the special school after the screening and the evaluation.” – Dr. Zhang Hongwei \nIf you missed this event\, you can watch the recording here. \n\n\nhttps://girlsjustice.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/07042925/video_GS_20210115v5.mp4
URL:https://girlsjustice.org/event/juvenile-incarceration-alternatives/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:International Perspectives on Girls in Conflict with the Law
DESCRIPTION:The treatment of justice-involved young women differs throughout the world. In “International Perspectives\,” three leading experts took unique perspectives to identify fascinating commonalities. In a panel moderated by John Kamm\, Meda Chesney-Lind of the University of Hawaii\, Nafula Wafula of the Commonwealth Youth Council\, and Independent Expert on the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty Manfred Nowak discussed local and global trends\, creating a picture of justice systems around the world and making recommendations to address these problems. \nMeda Chesney-Lind discussed her research and findings focused on the United States\, describing a society that has only recently started to recognize the needs of girls in the justice system. Manfred Nowak presented findings from his study on children deprived of liberty\, identifying global trends of neglect\, abuse\, and exploitation. Nafula Wafula took the audience on the journey of a typical girl offender through a justice system haunted by the remnants of colonialism and struggling to meet the needs of its charges. \nAcross all three presentations\, some commonalities emerged. Community-based treatments provide the most promise for rehabilitation but are woefully under-resourced. Justice systems do not provide separate spaces for girl offenders\, leaving them open to abuse at the hands of adults. Stigmatization runs rampant even as statistics struggle to grasp the whole picture. The young girls who do try to flee abuse are often met with carceral systems that serve as just another stop in the cycle of exploitation. \nHere are some takeaways from the event: \n“The system continues to punish [girls in conflict with the law] for seeking to escape this abuse and further harms and stigmatizes them often in the name of protecting them. These girls are not a public safety risk and can best be served in the communities in which they live.” – Meda Chesney-Lind \n  \n“In reality\, far too many children are detained in the administration of justice in migration detention\, in the context of armed conflict… Since childhood is the formative time of everyone’s life\, it is to deprive children of their liberties [is] depriving them of their childhood and has lasting effects on their life but also on society in general.” – Manfred Nowak \n  \n“[Girls in conflict with the law] have challenges being reintegrated into the education system. They’re turned away from schools. They also have difficulty in securing housing and employment\, mostly because they lack sufficient skills that will allow them to be reintegrated properly\, but also because of the stigma.” -Nafula Wafula \nClick here to learn more about United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty. \nIf you missed this event\, you can watch the recording here
URL:https://girlsjustice.org/event/international-perspectives-on-girls-in-conflict-with-the-law/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Girls in Conflict with the Law: Voices from Africa and the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Nearly half of the population in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is aged under 24 according to UNICEF\, and 60 percent of Africa’s total population is under 25 according to the Brookings Institute. In a session moderated by Dui Hua’s John Kamm\, legal expert Ann Skelton and Penal Reform International’s Taghreed Jaber explored the unique challenges and vulnerabilities faced by girls in conflict with the law in South Africa and the MENA region. Unfortunately\, the third panelist\, lawyer and activist Nafula Wafula\, was unable to attend\, and her presentation will be rescheduled. \nTaghreed Jaber spoke about the challenges facing girls in the MENA region\, including lack of access to education due to armed conflicts\, genital mutilation\, and informal justice systems. She called for more gender-sensitive legislation and stressed the importance of having more female legal practitioners in justice systems around the world. \nProfessor Ann Skelton spoke about girls as sex offenders under South African law. Focusing on the recent past\, Professor Skelton spoke about the unintended effects of legislation that led to girls being treated as criminals\, double standards faced by girls due to societal attitudes\, and how efforts to legislate “new generation” crimes such as sexting can have adverse effects on the groups they are meant to protect. \nHere are some takeaways from this event: \n“There’s also a very strong relation between being a victim of domestic or sexual violence and having to get in touch and contact with the legal system. As a victim or a survivor\, the fact that the systems are not equipped enough to respond to the needs of these girls\, either as victims or perpetrators of some offenses\, is a huge challenge in the MENA.” – Taghreed Jaber \n“Although the legislature had thought they were being very clever to treat these children in a gender-neutral way\, what they overlooked was the societal impact on what being involved in a sexual offense is for girls. [It’s] so different from boys because adolescent boys are sort of expected by society to engage in sexual activity and girls are not.” – Ann Skelton \nBoth panelists also addressed the effects of COVID-19 on girls and women in these areas. Taghreed Jaber spoke about additional COVID-related violence facing girls and women while Professor Skelton discussed the challenges that came with releasing children from custody amongst the pandemic. \n“According to the World Health Organization\, domestic violence and violence against women has increased 37 percent in the Mediterranean region\, which is a very high percentage and…we all can understand the reasons that have led to [this] in terms of the increase of stress\, the suspension of social and productive networks that were not able to operate [during] war\, the increased economic hardship that makes men more aggressive towards women in general. This means that more girls have been subject to domestic violence\, that would include sexual violence\, but they have limited chances of really going to report and seek support and help against the violence that they have been subject to.” – Taghreed Jaber \n“One of the tricky things when you’re releasing children from custody\, if it’s adults [being] released\, it’s so easy to just say\, ‘Well\, release [them]. Let them go home.’ But when it’s children\, you have to also look at what are the circumstances that you’re releasing them too.” – Ann Skelton \nIf you missed this event\, you can watch the recording here.
URL:https://girlsjustice.org/event/girls-in-conflict-with-the-law-voices-from-africa-and-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pathways Into and Out of Offending for Girls
DESCRIPTION:In this fascinating and in-depth webinar\, Drs. Gena Castro-Rodriguez and Elizabeth Cauffman presented on trauma and other risk factors that lead girls to delinquency in a panel moderated by Symposium partner Patricia Lee of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. Dr. Castro-Rodriguez\, of the Victim Services Division of the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office\, spoke about pathways into offending for girls. Her presentation addressed gendered violence\, different types of abuse and their developmental impacts\, protective reactions to abuse\, the delinquency response system\, and special considerations that need to be taken into account when dealing with girls in conflict with the law. \nDr. Cauffman of the University of California\, Irvine\, spoke about the Pathways to Desistance study that followed over 1\,300 juvenile offenders\, 14 percent of which were female\, for seven years after their convictions. Her presentation addressed trajectories and risk factors for youth offending\, as well as predictors for persistence female offending and pathways to desistance. \nHere are some key takeaways from this event: \n“There’s a cycle to violence. It’s not just the trauma or the event that happens during that abuse\, but it’s the pathway that leads to the risk for potential violent behavior\, increased potential for criminal behavior\, and\, unfortunately\, increased risk for re-victimization. What we really want to focus on is how we address the abuse in children\, how we try to intervene and get young people to safe places\, and how we treat that trauma so that we don’t end up with this cycle.” – Gena Castro-Rodriguez \n\n“Girls follow different pathways. While they exhibit similar pathways to males\, that level of severity is different between males and females. There are several risk factors that predict this persistent offending pattern. The psychological components of mental health\, that ability to think long term. The rates of trauma and victimization are key in keeping them engaged—this is something that definitely needs to be addressed—and\, ultimately\, the susceptibility and influence of these interpersonal relationships. Girls are relational\, and these relationships have a big effect on their behavior.” – Elizabeth Cauffman \nA Q&A session followed the presentations. During this session\, audience members asked about topics including global responses\, bullying\, the need for changes in societal views\, and the importance to reconsider current punitive measures for youth offenders. On the latter issue\, both panelists stressed the need to improve treatment for justice-involved girls: \n“We need to improve treatment options for young people so that they build safety and learn how to read warning signs and red flags and be able to take care of themselves and have other options other than running\, so if the treatment and the options were better\, then young people wouldn’t have to run away from them\, and instead we focus on how young people fail treatment rather than how the treatment is failing young people.” – Gena Castro-Rodriguez \n“Most of the time people just [think]\, “she’s run\,” but not why she’s run. It’s always her fault\, or the kid’s fault…when we as the adults just haven’t done a good job at figuring out how to solve the problem. So it’s not whether you hold a kid accountable\, it’s how\, and we need to change the how.” – Elizabeth Cauffman \nIf you missed this event\, you can watch the recording here.
URL:https://girlsjustice.org/event/pathways-into-and-out-of-offending-for-girls/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Introducing the International Symposium on Girls in Conflict with the Law with Remarks on Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:On November 10\, the Symposium launched with an audience of participants and supporters from North America and Asia. John Kamm spoke about Dui Hua’s history of expert exchanges and the need to pay greater attention to the crisis of girls in conflict with the law. Anna Wu\, honorary fellow and professor at the University of Hong Kong\, discussed how the relationship between juveniles and law enforcement in Hong Kong has changed in recent years\, including during the 2019 protests. Patricia Lee of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office presented on the impending closure of San Francisco’s juvenile hall. \nHere are some of the key takeaways from this event: \n“We’re used to hearing about various crises. We have the refugee crisis\, the climate crisis\, crises around the world in different hotspots\, but we almost never hear about this crisis\, which is hiding in plain sight: the crisis of girls in conflict with the law. And that’s what we’re going to be dealing with.” – John Kamm \n“It is important that we design programs which are fluid\, transformative\, and gender-sensitive. We do have to factor in these issues. I think we need to incorporate into the program dialogues on notions of justice and injustice\, and on disparities and differences\, and we need to be sensitive to the causes of conflicts. We really have to dive deep into these issues to try to restore order and to restore human relations.” – Anna Wu \n“Our charge is looking at creating a smaller\, home-like\, nurturing house of detention for youth that need to be detained\, but only those youth that need to be detained\, and then reinvesting that money back into the communities\, the schools\, and the families\, so that hopefully we reduce the impact of being in the juvenile justice system and creating alternative programs…of restorative justice and diversion.” – Patricia Lee \nIf you missed this event\, you can watch the recording here. \nhttps://girlsjustice.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/07043015/video_20201110.mp4
URL:https://girlsjustice.org/event/introducing-the-international-symposium-on-girls-in-conflict-with-the-law-with-remarks-on-hong-kong/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Introducing the International Symposium on Girls in Conflict with the Law with Remarks on Africa and Middle East
DESCRIPTION:On October 27\, the Symposium launched with an audience of participants and supporters from North America\, Europe\, Africa\, and the Middle East. John Kamm spoke about Dui Hua’s history of expert exchanges and the need to pay greater attention to the crisis of girls in conflict with the law. Taghreed Jaber\, Penal Reform International’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) gave a summary of the situation of girls in conflict with the law in the MENA region. Patricia Lee of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office presented on the impending closure of San Francisco’s juvenile hall. \nHere are some of the key takeaways from this event: \n“The fact that girls within the criminal justice system are a minority is unfortunately putting them in more risks in facing this crisis and in facing double discrimination within the criminal justice system.” – Taghreed Jaber \n“We hear this term ‘crisis’ used quite a bit…Rarely if ever do we talk about the crisis of girls in conflict with the law\, so we’re going to raise awareness of the crisis…We want to exchange best practices and make recommendations to governments.” – John Kamm \n“Even though the girls comprise a small percentage of youth in custody\, they present with very serious behavioral and mental health issues\, and any child that touches the carceral system and is housed in a detention facility is traumatized by that experience.” – Patricia Lee \nIf you missed this event\, you can view the recording here. \nhttps://girlsjustice.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/07043028/video_20201027_GS_introduction_1_compress.mp4
URL:https://girlsjustice.org/event/introducing-the-international-symposium-on-girls-in-conflict-with-the-law-with-remarks-on-africa-and-middle-east/
LOCATION:San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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