The rights of the child 2005, para. 21

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Calls upon all States to prevent violations of the rights of children working and/or living on the street, including discrimination, arbitrary detention and extrajudicial, arbitrary or summary executions, torture, and all kinds of violence and exploitation, and to bring the perpetrators to justice, to adopt and implement policies for the protection, social and psychosocial rehabilitation and reintegration of those children and to adopt economic, social and educational strategies to address the problems of children working and/or living on the street;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
Year
2005
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, The rights of the child (2005), A/RES/60/231, OP 21.
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OP
Paragraph number
21