Protection from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation 2003, para. (a) vi
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- [Calls upon States, UNHCR and its implementing and operational partners to ensure that appropriate systems to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence, including sexual abuse and exploitation, are in place, ensuring the needs of women and children, as well those of vulnerable persons, are addressed at all times; and recommends that measures to combat sexual abuse and exploitation of refugees and asylum-seekers be guided by the importance of:] Ensuring that easily accessible and confidential complaint and redress mechanisms are in place for victims of sexual abuse and exploitation, and that they appropriately apply sanctions to perpetrators and ensure that such mechanisms respect due process rights of the accused, and safeguard the security and rights of the victim or witnesses;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2003
- Paragraph type
- OP
- Reference
- ExCom Conclusion No. 98, Protection from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (2003), OP (a) vi.
- Paragraph info
- OP
- Paragraph number
- (a) vi
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