Underlines that children, including adolescents, should not be subject to arbitrary arrest or detention based solely on their migration status and that the deprivation of the liberty of migrant children and adolescents should be a measure of last resort, under conditions that respect the human rights of each child and in a manner that takes into account, as a primary consideration, the best interests of the child;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Governance & Rule of Law
Movement
Person(s) affected
Adolescents
Children
Persons on the move
Year
2016
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Rights of the child (2016), A/RES/71/177, OP 67.