Children deprived of their liberty from the perspective of the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2015, para. 68
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In January 2014, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, at its sixty-fifth session, adopted a recommendation that the General Assembly request the Secretary-General to conduct an in-depth international study on the issue of children deprived of liberty (A/69/41, annex II). The Special Rapporteur therefore welcomes General Assembly resolution 69/157, in which the Assembly invited the Secretary-General to commission an in-depth global study on children deprived of liberty.
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Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment