Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2008, para. 32

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Further calls upon all States to protect children deprived of their liberty from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and to ensure that, if they are arrested, detained or imprisoned, children are provided with adequate legal assistance and that they shall have the right to maintain contact with their family through correspondence and visits, save in exceptional circumstances, and that no child in detention is sentenced or subject to forced labour or corporal punishment, or deprived of access to and provision of health-care services, hygiene and environmental sanitation, education, basic instruction and vocational training;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Families
Year
2008
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution (2008), A/HRC/RES/7/29, OP 32.
Paragraph info
OP
Paragraph number
32