The rights of the child 2008, para. 13
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- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Encourages States to adopt and enforce laws and improve the implementation of policies and programmes to protect children growing up without parents or caregivers, recognizing that, where alternative care is necessary, family- and community-based care should be promoted over placement in institutions, and in this context invites States to dedicate all their efforts, in a transparent process, with a view to possible action on the draft United Nations guidelines for the appropriate use and conditions of alternative care for children at the tenth session of the Human Rights Council;
- Document legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document means of adoption
- Vote
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Document year
- 2008
- Paragraph type
- OP
- Reference
- UNGA resolution, The rights of the child (2008), A/RES/63/241, OP 13.
- Paragraph info
- OP
- Paragraph number
- 13
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