SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 51
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Their risk of deprivation of liberty is high. Children may be detained by invoking the need to secure their protection from the risk of disappearance or trafficking, or for the purpose of family tracing or to consider the options for return to their country of origin. Detaining these children, which is never in their best interests, is an additional punishment; the desired aims can be achieved in a different way.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children