E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 62 59 According to article 117 of the ECA, community service “consists in the carrying out of non-remunerated tasks of general interest for not more than six months at hospitals, schools, other such institutions and in community and governmental programmes”. 60 Articles 118 and 119 of the ECA provide that a trained person will “socially promote the adolescent and his family”, supervise his school attendance, assist with vocational training and work towards the adolescent’s insertion in the job market. The measure is to take a minimum period of six months, which can be extended. 61 According to article 120 of the ECA, semi-liberty can be determined as a transition measure to the open system or from the beginning, it is not subject to limitations of time, and makes education and vocational training obligatory. 62 Article 101 provides for II - temporary guidance, support and monitoring; III - obligatory enrolment and attendance in Government based education institutions; IV - inclusion in community or government programmes of family, child and adolescent assistance; V - medical, psychological or psychiatric treatment in a hospital or outpatient system; VI - inclusion in a government or community programme of aid, orientation and treatment of alcoholics and drug addicts; VII - shelter; VIII - placement in foster family. 63 Article 121 of the ECA. 64 Ibid., art. 107. Articles 230 and 231 of the ECA provide that failure to comply with these provisions should be punished with detention from six months to two years. Article 234 of the ECA further provides that failure by the proper authority, without just cause, to order the immediate release of the adolescent, upon knowing of the facts, shall be subject to the same punishment. 65 Article 142 of the ECA provides that minors of less than 16 years will be represented and that those “aged sixteen or more and less than twenty-one years ... will be assisted by their parents, custodians or guardians”, according to civil and procedural legislation. 66 67 Article 124 of the ECA. Pursuant to Article 86 of the ECA, the rights of minors will be implemented through joint effort by the federal government, states, the Federal District (Brasilia) and municipalities. Article 88 foresees, inter alia, the creation of municipal, state and national councils of child and adolescent rights, charged with controlling their implementation at all levels, with the involvement of NGOs, as well as the participation of the judiciary branch, the Office of the Attorney-General, the Office of the Public Defender, the Public Security and Social Assistance, with a view of facilitating initial assistance to adolescents to whom an infraction has been attributed. Article 131 of the ECA provides for the creation of a Council of Guardianship, a permanent, autonomous, non-jurisdictional entity, composed of members of the municipality,

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