Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights 2015, para. 6
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Concerned by the fact that migrant children and adolescents who find themselves in a vulnerable situation by attempting to cross international borders without the required travel documents may be exposed to serious human rights violations and abuses that can threaten their physical, emotional and psychological well-being, and may also be exposed to crimes and human rights abuses committed by transnational criminal organizations or gangs, including crimes such as theft, kidnapping, extortion, physical abuse, sale of persons and trafficking in persons, including forced labour, and sexual abuse and exploitation,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Movement
Violence
Person(s) affected
Adolescents
Children
Persons on the move
Year
2015
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
HRC resolution, Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2015), A/HRC/RES/29/12, PP 6.