Irregular migration and criminalization of migrants, protection of children in the migration process and the right to housing and health of migrants 2011, para. 40
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Regrettably, there were vast discrepancies between international human rights norms and their actual implementation in the field of health care for migrant children, whether these children are in regular or irregular situations, accompanied or unaccompanied. Inadequate care had long-lasting consequences on a child's development; for this reason, and in the light of the State duty to protect the most vulnerable, access to health care for migrant children should be an urgent priority. In general, the constraints on the rights of adult migrants immediately had an adverse impact on the rights of their children, and in the long term, inhibited the children's development.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants