Rights of the child 1998, para. 17a
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- [Calls upon all States:] To protect refugee and internally displaced children, including through policies for their care, well-being and development, in such areas as health, education and psychosocial rehabilitation, with the necessary international cooperation, in particular with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children's Fund and the International Committee of the Red Cross, in accordance with their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and taking into account the 1994 guidelines on protection and care of refugee children of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Conclusion on refugee children and adolescents adopted by the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme at its forty-eighth session in October 1997, as well as the recommendations of the representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons (see E/CN.4/1998/53 and Add.1 and 2);
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1998
- Paragraph type
- OP
- Paragraph focus
- Protection of refugee and internally displaced children
- Paragraph info
- OP
- Paragraph number
- 17a
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