Rights of the child: A holistic approach to the protection and promotion of the rights of children working and/or living on the street 2011, para. 19
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Bearing in mind the diverse causes of the emergence and marginalization of children working and/or living on the street, such as poverty; migration, including rural-to-urban migration; trafficking; violence; abuse and neglect at home or in care institutions; broken families; lack of access to basic services, including free education; HIV/AIDS and child relinquishment; substance abuse; and mental health issues, intolerance, discrimination, armed conflict and displacement, and that such causes are often aggravated and their solution made more difficult by serious socio-economic and other difficulties,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Health
Movement
Poverty
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Children
Year
2011
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
HRC resolution, Rights of the child: A holistic approach to the protection and promotion of the rights of children working and/or living on the street (2011), A/HRC/RES/16/12, PP 19.