Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2012, para. 53
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- Calls upon all States to protect children deprived of their liberty from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and to ensure that, if they are arrested, detained or imprisoned, children are provided with adequate legal assistance and that they have the right to maintain contact with their family through correspondence and visits from the moment they are arrested, save in exceptional circumstances, and that no child is sentenced or subject to forced labour or corporal punishment, or deprived of access to and provision of health care and services, hygiene and environmental sanitation, education, basic instruction and vocational training, and to undertake prompt investigations of all reported acts of violence and ensure that perpetrators are held accountable;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- OP
- Reference
- HRC resolution, Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution (2012), A/HRC/RES/19/37, OP 53.
- Paragraph info
- OP
- Paragraph number
- 53
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