Rights of the child 2003, para. 35c

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[Calls upon:] All States to take appropriate steps to ensure compliance with the principle that depriving children of their liberty should be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time, in particular before trial, and to ensure that, if they are arrested, detained or imprisoned, children are provided with adequate legal assistance and are separated from adults, to the greatest extent feasible, unless it is considered in their best interest not to do so, and also to take appropriate steps to ensure that no child in detention is sentenced to forced labour, corporal punishment, or deprived of access to and provision of health-care services, hygiene and environmental sanitation, education, basic instruction and vocational training, taking into consideration the special needs of children with disabilities in detention, in accordance with their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
Year
2003
Paragraph type
OP
Paragraph focus
Children alleged to have or recognized as having infringed penal law
Paragraph info
OP
Paragraph number
35c