The organisation Juvenile Justice Advocates International, which works towards the reform of juvenile justice systems in the US and Mexico, has recently published a guide that compiles the principal standards held at the international level regarding children deprived of liberty, seeking their practical applications in detention centres in these countries.
Most of these standards originate from United Nations documents, such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its subsequent General Comments, the Riyadh Guidelines, the Beijing Rules, and the Havana Rules, amongst others.
The document presents the standards in list form so that justice systems can use them to check if their detention centres are complying with these norms in different aspects concerning the deprivation of liberty of children.