The Stockholm Center for the Rights of the Child has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar with Bronwyn Naylor on the topic “Protecting the rights of children and young people in locked environments”.

Children and young people can be detained - deprived of their liberty - in youth justice facilities and police cells, child protection, psychiatric and disability facilities, and immigration detention. They can face extended pre-trial detention, isolation and the use of restraints, and problems accessing education and family. They may also have limited access to information about rights and to avenues for complaints. At the same time they can have a range of vulnerabilities and complex needs. How are their rights protected? Both Sweden and Australia have domestic and international forms of human rights oversight offering different types of protections, and different histories and cultures of rights protections. This seminar explores the rights issues facing children and young people in detention, and the protections offered specifically by oversight and inspection agencies in these two countries. Drawing on both Swedish and comparative perspectives, the aim will be to identify knowledge gaps and the most important research questions for further discussion.

Bronwyn Naylor teaches at the Graduate School of Business and Law at RMIT University, Melbourne. She has postgraduate qualifications in Law (from Monash University) and Criminology (from Cambridge University) and has researched and published extensively in the areas of detention, human rights protections, and most recently the implementation of the UN Treaty OPCAT (the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture). OCPAT was ratified by Sweden in 2005 and by Australia in 2017. Australia is currently in the process of implementing the Treaty, and Bronwyn has been appointed to the national OPCAT Advisory Group. Professor Naylor was to have been an Academic Visitor to the Law Department at Stockholm University in August and September, had the pandemic not intervened.