SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 36a
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- [To address these concerns, in 2012 the Special Representative organized an expert consultation and issued a joint report (A/HRC/21/25) with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and OHCHR, and highlighted the urgency of:]Preventing the criminalization and penalization of children, including by strengthening a well-resourced child protection system to avoid the use of the justice system as a replacement for an ill-functioning system of care and protection of children; ensuring a universal system of birth registration to safeguard children's protection and prevent their treatment as adults; decriminalizing "status offences", such as begging and vagrancy; and preventing the detention of children with mental health and substance abuse problems and of unaccompanied migrant children and asylum seekers on the basis of their status;
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 36a
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