Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children Outside Their Country of Origin 2005, para. 31 (iii)

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[The best interests of the child must also be a guiding principle for determining the priority of protection needs and the chronology of measures to be applied in respect of unaccompanied and separated children. This necessary initial assessment process, in particular, entails the following:] In continuation of the registration process, the recording of further information in order to meet the specific needs of the child. This information should include: - Reasons for being separated or unaccompanied; - Assessment of particular vulnerabilities, including health, physical, psychosocial, material and other protection needs, including those deriving from domestic violence, trafficking or trauma; - All available information to determine the potential existence of international protection needs, including those: due to a "well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion" in the child's country of origin (article 1 A (2), 1951 Refugee Convention); deriving from external aggression, occupation, foreign domination or events seriously disturbing public order (article 1 (2), Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa); or relating to the indiscriminate effects of generalized violence;
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Committee on the Rights of the Child
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2005
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
CRC General Comment No. 6, Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children Outside Their Country of Origin (2005), para. 31 (iii).
Paragraph number
31 (iii)