UNICEF calls for change in justice systems on behalf of child prisoners in E. Asia and Pacific BANGKOK, 18 March 2004 – A UNICEF report released today calls for urgent improvements in judicial systems for children and young people in East Asia and the Pacific.
One way they can do this is with their votes, which can be signals to sympathetic court-watchers that they should take heart: close votes could easily change in future cases or with a change in justices.
In the wake of the appearance, Mr. Jospin has attempted to correct figures and misrepresentations, sending out to the press a half-dozen ministers, including the justice minister, who pointed out that the changes in the justice system that Mr. Chirac had criticized had been largely the president's own initiatives.
Californians for Safety and Justice, which says it advocates for changes in criminal justice laws on behalf of crime victims, is lobbying the Legislature on nearly two dozen bills.
But his advisers say it will require radical changes in the justice system, from lowly patrolmen to the high courts.
Mr. Perry, a Republican who rose from lieutenant governor to governor after Mr. Bush's presidential election victory, surprised some lawmakers by speaking, though in vague terms, of a need for changes in criminal justice.
Teresa Ruffin, a pastor at the city's Faith Ministry Worship Center, whose teenage son Ikeem was shot and killed in 2010 in circumstances which also sparked criticism of Sanford police, said she hoped coverage of Martin's death would prompt thorough changes in the justice system.
New Orleanians, with government and philanthropic partners, have advanced many reforms meant to make the city "better than before," including a bold charter school experiment, an overhaul of the region's health care delivery system, sweeping changes in criminal justice and a new inspector general's office that is rooting out waste and corruption.
The proposals had been recommended by the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, a bipartisan body of police officials, prosecutors and defense lawyers charged by the State Senate to address the most common causes of wrongful convictions and recommend changes in criminal justice procedures.
