Rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents

8. Efforts must be made to discourage children from misbehaving and violating rules and regulations on the streets and in public places. The Government must organize, in such manner as is possible at the time, the rehabilitation and upbringing of children who are not reformed by such efforts.

Establishment of a special procedure to deal with juvenile delinquents and giving preference to rehabilitation without punishment.

9. A special procedure must be established for the investigation, adjudication of and the
imposition of punishment, , wherever necessary, for offences committed by children. Further, preference shall be given to rehabilitation of children, who are considered minor in Shari'a, without imposing punishment on such children.

Avoidance of physically and psychologically injurious punishment in schools.

10. Punishment given must be appropriate to the age of the child and should not be physically or psychologically harmful to the child.