Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights 2016, para. 11
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Deeply concerned at the fact that migrant children and adolescents who are in vulnerable situations when 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 health and well-being, and may also be exposed to crimes and human rights abuses, including theft, kidnapping, extortion, physical abuse, smuggling and trafficking in persons, including forced labour, and sexual exploitation and abuse, during their journeys,
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
2016
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
HRC resolution, Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2016), A/HRC/RES/33/7, PP 11.