Burning Issues
Burning Issues

Immigrant Communities as Expert Bodies and Actors of Juvenile Justice

In Germany, the State may intervene in the parents’ rights to bring up children only in justified exceptional cases. Article 3, paragraph 1 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child stipulates that “In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.”