Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (g) viii

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[Recommends that States, UNHCR and other relevant agencies and partners work in close collaboration to prevent children from being put at heightened risk, and respond, as necessary, through the general prevention, response and solution measures listed non-exhaustively below:] Develop child and gender-sensitive national asylum procedures, where feasible, and UNHCR status determination procedures with adapted procedures including relevant evidentiary requirements, prioritized processing of unaccompanied and separated child asylum-seekers, qualified free legal or other representation for unaccompanied and separated children, and consider an age and gender- sensitive application of the 1951 Convention through the recognition of child-specific manifestations and forms of persecution, including under-age recruitment, child trafficking and female genital mutilation;
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Negotiated soft law
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
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N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2007
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
ExCom Conclusion No. 107, Conclusion On Children At Risk (2007), OP (g) viii.
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OP
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(g) viii