Rights of the child: Access to justice for children 2014, para. 8a
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- [Reaffirms the duty of all States to protect children from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, maltreatment or exploitation, and calls upon States:] To ensure a safe environment for children in justice processes and that children, including unaccompanied children, in contact with the justice system are protected from any form of hardship by adapting procedures and adopting appropriate protective measures against abuse, exploitation, manipulation, violence, including sexual and gender-based violence, harassment, intimidation, reprisals or secondary victimization, taking into account that the risks faced by boys and girls may differ and that special precautionary measures may be needed when the alleged perpetrator is a parent, a member of the family or a primary caregiver;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- OP
- Reference
- HRC resolution, Rights of the child: Access to justice for children (2014), A/HRC/RES/25/6, OP 8a.
- Paragraph info
- OP
- Paragraph number
- 8a
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