Officials from the Ministry of Justice and several children’s rights NGOs met on Thursday to push for the 2002 draft of the Justice for Juvenile Act to be passed into law.
The Act is hoped to stop unwarranted arrests and excessive detainment of juveniles, food shortages, lack of healthcare, and lack of acceptable infrastructure for minors in prison.
It is aimed at helping both juvenile offenders and innocent children who are behind prison walls, having followed their mothers there.
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Source: (The Phnom Penh Post – December 07, 2012)
