SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 55

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The Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols, together with other international standards, including the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, provide clear guidance on upholding children's rights and preventing and eliminating the risks of violence in the lives of children on the move. Firstly, these standards recognize the imperative to act and to ensure without discrimination the realization of the rights of all children who fall under the jurisdiction of the State. This includes asylum-seeking, refugee, migrant and stateless children, and, in this context, we should recall that a child is born stateless every 10 minutes.
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
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2017
Paragraph type
Other
Paragraph number
55