Child+Imprisonment

UNICEF Child Imprisonment Lebanon Child imprisonment is when a minor is imprison for usually a crime they didn’t commit and are imprisoned with   criminals who had actually committed crimes such as murder, rape, and kidnapping. This issue is currently taking place in many countries. In some countries minors are not allowed to be imprison with adults and also don’t receive the same punishment for the crime committed. There have been some cases were children are imprisoned for crimes they didn’t even commit. These minor also don’t have a fair trail or don’t even have one at all and are still put in prison. There is an estimation of 5000,000 children imprisoned worldwide. In some countries children are put in an inhumane and degrading condition.  ** II. UN involvement **  This issue has been discussed man times in the UN. United Nations has done many things to try to stop this and also it tries to reinforce the children rights. UNICEF wants to separate system of juvenile justice and special juvenile courts to protect children. Also they want to make sure prison is the last choice before a child is even brought to court. Child Imprisonment will be mentioned and worked don at the Consultation on Violence against Children in Europe and Central Asia set to take place in Slovenia in early July. Lebanon believes that children who commit a crime should be imprisoned. They have to learn that doing certain things are bad so they’ll have to go to prison for it. It will teach them how to become mature and also will teach them not to do what they did again. Lebanese people strongly agree on child imprisonment. Children should respect others or others properties and should not even steal an apple from a store. Lebanon is proposing some solutions like Child Imprisonment the right Punishment. This solution will clearly state the benefits of putting a child in prison. Another solution we propose is Child Imprisonment which will state what child imprisonment will work for and also how will it help our society. ** IV. **** Miscellaneous ** http://www.unicef.org/protection/georgia_27335.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_imprisonment http://yjj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/2/77 http://www.viva.org/?page_id=50&risk_id=RJI
 * 1)  Lebanon is in the Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea and it’s between Israel and Syria. Our formal name is Lebanon but we can also be called the Lebanese republic. Our climate ire mild cool, wet winters, hot dry summers and our mountains experience heavy winter snows. In a map we are found in the Middle East. Our geographic coordinates are 33 50 N, 35 50 E, we are .07 times the size of Connecticut approximately. We have narrow coastal plain and El Beqaa separates Lebanon and anti-Lebanon mountains. Lebanon is 10,400 sq km.
 * 1)  Lebanon ’s government is republic and our president is Michel Sulayman since May 25, 2008. Political parties in our country are Democratic Gathering bloc, Progressive Socialist Party, Democratic Left, Democratic Renewal Movement, Future Movement Bloc, Kataeb Party, Lebanese Forces, and Tripoli Independent Bloc. Our capital is Beirut. Hizballah military wing, Palestinian militias, Maronite Christians, Sunnis and their militias and Shi’as and their militias are international organization affiliations. Our military is composed by 934,828 males (ages between 16-49) and 948,327 females (ages between 16-49).
 * 1)  Our official language is Arabic and other languages that are spoken throughout our country are French, English, and Armenian. Our ethnicity is 95 % Arab, 4% Armenian, and 1 % of other. Our major religions are Muslim 59.7 %, Christina 39 %, and 1.3 % other. Lebanon’s population is 3,971,941 and our growth rate is 1.154%. The distribution is 26% of 0-14 years, 66.8% of 15-64, and 7.1 % 65 and over. Our major cities are Tripoli, Baalbek, and Jounyeh. The infant mortality rate is 22.59 deaths/1,000 live births and our life expectancy at birth is 70.91 years for male and 75.04 years for females.
 * 1)  GDP in Lebanon is $40.44 billion and per capita is $10,300. 30.10 % land is used for agriculture. Our natural resources are limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in water-deficit region, and arable land. In Lebanon our major agriculture products are citrus, grapes, tomatoes, apples, vegetables, potatoes, olives, tobacco, sheep, and goats. Our major industries are banking, tourism, food processing, wine, jewelry, cement, textiles, mineral and chemical products, wood and furniture products, oil refining, metal fabricating. Our major exports are authentic jewelry, inorganic chemicals, miscellaneous consumer goods, fruit and vegetables, tobacco, construction minerals, electric power machinery and switchgear, textile fibers, and paper. Our major imports are petroleum products, cars, medical products, clothing, meat and live animals, consumer goods, paper, textile fabrics, tobacco, and electrical machinery. The currency is Lebanese pound and the exchange rates are Lebanese pounds per US dollar- 1,507.5 as of 2007.our total amount for exports are $4.077 billion and for imports is $11.93 billion.
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