The Rules for Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty offers standards for management of Juvenile trials and facilities.

The United Nations rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty, or the Havana Rules, was adopted by the General Assembly in 1990. Subtopics include juveniles under arrest or awaiting trail and the management of juvenile facilities. These rules establish minimum standards accepted by the UN for Juvenile Justice applications within a context of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

The Beijing Rules are a 1985 UNGA resolution regarding juvenile detention, prisoners, and offenders.

The UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (Beijing Rules) of 1985 provides instruction and guidelines on how minors should be treated by the State while interacting with the justice system. Subtopics include privacy rights, police operations, and due process guarantees. Notably, the Rules recommend alternative justice methods for minors.

This fact sheet provides an overview of current international trends in Juvenile Justice alongside ongoing UN efforts.

This fact sheet provides an overview of current international trends in Juvenile Justice alongside ongoing UN efforts. Included are accessible data analysis as well as discussions of Juvenile Detention, Juvenile crime involvement, and ongoing UN fieldwork.

This note provides the guiding principles and framework for UN justice for children activities at the national level.

This note provides the guiding principles and framework for UN justice for children activities at the national level that apply in all circumstances, including in conflict prevention, crisis, postcrisis, conflict, post-conflict and development contexts. It is framed within the UN mandate to support the realisation of human rights, poverty reduction and the Millennium Development Goals, and is a contribution to the UN coherence agenda in the rule of law area.

The goal of the justice for children approach is to ensure that children, defined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child as all persons under the age of eighteen, are better served and protected by justice systems, including the security and social welfare sectors. It specifically aims at ensuring full application of international norms and standards for all children who come into contact with justice and related systems as victims, witnesses and alleged offenders; or for other reasons where judicial, state administrative or non-state adjudicatory intervention is needed, for example regarding their care, custody or protection.