Human rights in the administration of justice, in particular juvenile justice 2011, para. 16
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Reaffirming that the best interests of the child must be a primary consideration in all decisions concerning deprivation of liberty and, in particular, that depriving children and juveniles of their liberty should be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time, in particular before trial, and the need to ensure that, if they are arrested, detained or imprisoned, children should be separated from adults, to the greatest extent feasible, unless it is considered in the child’s best interest not to do so,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Civil & Political Rights
Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
Adolescents
Children
Year
2011
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
HRC resolution, Human rights in the administration of justice, in particular juvenile justice (2011), A/HRC/RES/18/12, PP 16.