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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 15
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- Recalling that, around the world, nearly 50 million children have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced, including more than 10 million child refugees, 1 million child asylum seekers and another 20 million migrant children who have crossed international borders, an estimated 17 million children internally displaced due to conflict and violence and more than 300,000 unaccompanied and separated children, and that children now comprise half of all refugees,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 23
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- 5. Urges States to provide age-, disability- and gender-sensitive humanitarian assistance, including specialized child protection services, to children in the context of humanitarian situations, including refugee and displaced children, that takes into account the particular vulnerabilities and specific protection needs of children, including those who have been forced to flee violence, who have suffered persecution, who are the primary caregivers of families, who have disabilities or who are unaccompanied or separated;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2018
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, para. 28
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- 8. Further strongly condemns the Syrian authorities’ use of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, of besiegement directed against civilian populations and of cluster munitions, and the indiscriminate use of heavy weapons and aerial bombardment, incendiary weapons, ballistic missiles and barrel bombs, and stresses the particular situations of concern in Idlib, where reports suggest that the use of some of these methods of warfare by the Syrian authorities have recently led to the deaths of civilians and the internal displacement of 300,000 people, and Eastern Ghouta, where up to 400,000 people remain besieged, and demands rapid, unhindered and sustained humanitarian access to and medical evacuations for those in need;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, para. 39
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- 18. Calls upon all parties to the conflict to cease the mistreatment and torture of detainees, to allow access to medical services for all detainees, and to provide information on those they have detained to their families;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar, para. 20
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- 5. Calls upon the international community and regional organizations to provide support, including humanitarian and development assistance, to the Government of Myanmar for the implementation of the recommendations of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, including the recommendations on an inclusive, transparent and efficient citizenship verification process that provides participants with all the benefits, rights and freedoms associated with citizenship, ensuring equal access to essential social services for all Myanmar residents, including education and health care, and providing freedom of movement for them, and on finding sustainable solutions in building intercommunal harmony towards lasting peace, stability and prosperity for the benefit of the whole population;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan, para. 24
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- 10. Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the attention of all Governments, the competent United Nations organs, specialized agencies, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and international humanitarian organizations, to disseminate it as widely as possible and to report on this matter to the Human Rights Council at its fortieth session;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, para. 16
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- Stressing the need for all parties, in conformity with the relevant provisions of international humanitarian law, to cooperate fully with the United Nations and other humanitarian agencies and organizations and to ensure the safe and unhindered access of humanitarian personnel, and the delivery of supplies and equipment, in order to allow such personnel to perform efficiently their task of assisting affected civilian populations, including refugees and internally displaced persons,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan, para. 43
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- 5. Condemns the continuing settlement and related activities by Israel, including the construction and expansion of settlements, the expropriation of land, the demolition of houses, the confiscation and destruction of property, the forcible transfer of Palestinians, including entire communities, and the construction of bypass roads, which change the physical character and demographic composition of the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan, constitute a violation of international humanitarian law, in particular article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and of international human rights law, and undermine the viability of the two-State solution;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan, para. 22
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- Deploring in particular the construction and expansion of settlements by Israel in and around occupied East Jerusalem, including its so-called E-1 plan, which aims to connect its illegal settlements around and further isolate occupied East Jerusalem, the continuing demolition of Palestinian homes and eviction of Palestinian families from the city, the revocation of Palestinian residency rights in the city, and ongoing settlement activities in the Jordan Valley, all of which further fragment and undermine the contiguity of the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in Libya, para. 20
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- 8. Welcomes the commitment of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, on behalf of the United Nations country team, to intensify the work on the ground of the United Nations to help to improve the living conditions of all people in Libya, including migrants, and looks forward to an increase in the presence of the United Nations in Libya, to plans for a new round of voluntary funding for 2018 for the Libya Humanitarian Response Plan and the Stabilization Facility for Libya, and to recommendations to increase the strategic coordination of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya and United Nations agencies, funds and programmes in Libya;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Situation of human rights in the South Sudan, para. 14
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- Expressing grave concern that 5.1 million South Sudanese are food insecure, that 1.9 million are internally displaced within South Sudan and that approximately 2.4 million are displaced outside the country, noting that the humanitarian crisis is caused primarily by conflict, commending humanitarian agencies for their continued assistance to the affected populations, and recalling the need for all parties to the conflict to allow and facilitate the full, safe and unhindered access of relief personnel, equipment and supplies free of unnecessary duties and taxes and the timely delivery of humanitarian assistance to all those in need, in particular to internally displaced persons and refugees, based on the United Nations guiding principles of humanitarian assistance, including humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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The deteriorating situation of human rights in Eastern Ghouta, in the Syrian Arab Republic, para. 4
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- Recalling further the press release of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of 21 February 2018 and his statement to the Human Rights Council on 26 February, in which he expressed alarm at the escalation of continued hostilities in Eastern Ghouta and called for an immediate cessation of hostilities, and stressed the imperative of granting immediate humanitarian access and ensuring swift facilitation of evacuations of the sick and wounded, as well as civilians wishing to leave, adding that any political agreement regarding Eastern Ghouta must be in conformity with international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and that no forced displacement of civilians should take place as a result of such a political agreement,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Promoting human rights through sport and the Olympic ideal, para. 28
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- Noting further that the participation of teams of refugees in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016, and in other games, such as the 2017 World Championship in Athletics in London, and the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, might inspire a new understanding of the rights of millions of people caught up in crises around the world, and welcoming in this context the participation in mega-sporting events of teams of refugees selected under the responsibility of the International Olympic Committee, in close cooperation and consultation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, relevant international sports federations, national Olympic committees and the host country,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 25
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- 7. Calls upon States to put in place, if they have not yet done so, appropriate policies, systems and procedures to ensure that the best interests of the child are a primary consideration in all actions or decisions concerning migrant children, regardless of their migration status, and to use alternatives to the detention of migrant children, including by promoting the use of non-custodial solutions, implemented by competent child protection actors engaging with the child and, where applicable, his or her family;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, para. 7
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- Expressing deep concern about the situation of women, children and internally displaced persons, who remain among the most vulnerable to violence,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2018
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, para. 42
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- 21. Strongly condemns violence against all persons based on their religious or ethnic affiliation, including the indiscriminate use of car and suicide bombs, snipers and hostage-taking, demands that all parties take all appropriate steps to protect civilians, including members of ethnic, religious and confessional communities, and stresses that, in this regard, the primary responsibility to protect the Syrian population lies with the Syrian authorities;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, para. 63
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- 40. Expresses deep concern for the more than 6 million internally displaced persons and 5 million refugees in the region fleeing the violence in the Syrian Arab Republic, welcomes the efforts of neighbouring countries to host Syrian refugees, acknowledges the socioeconomic consequences of the presence of large-scale refugee populations in those countries, and urges the international community to provide urgent financial support to enable the host countries to respond to the growing humanitarian needs of Syrian refugees, including the particular needs of women and girls, while emphasizing the principle of burden-sharing;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2018
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, para. 64
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- 41. Notes those States outside the region that have put in place measures and policies to assist and to host Syrian refugees, and encourages them to do more, and also encourages other States outside the region to consider implementing similar measures and policies, also with a view to providing Syrian refugees with protection and humanitarian assistance;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, para. 65
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- 42. Welcomes the international conferences on supporting the Syrian people and the region, held in Kuwait City and London, as well as the follow-up conference held in Brussels in 2017, and looks forward to the second Brussels conference on the Syrian Arab Republic, in April 2018, which is aimed at securing pledges for humanitarian needs in the Syrian Arab Republic and the region, renewing commitment to supporting the resilience of host communities and refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, underlining the need to protect civilians and respect international human rights law and international humanitarian law and reaffirming international support for the United Nations-led intra-Syrian talks in Geneva within the framework provided by the Security Council in its resolution 2254 (2015);
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar, para. 45
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- 27. Welcomes the steps taken by the Government of Myanmar to prevent and end the recruitment of children, in contravention of applicable international law, and the release of more than 850 former recruited children and, abhorring their use in Myanmar, urges the Government to consolidate progress further towards the complete cessation of their recruitment and use; the identification of all children remaining in the ranks of government forces and their immediate release; an end to the arrest, harassment and imprisonment of children accused of desertion or association with non-State armed groups; continued efforts to bring perpetrators of child recruitment, in contravention of applicable international law, to justice and to criminalize such recruitment; increasing transparency, including by expanding access to birth registration services to children, including those vulnerable to recruitment; ensuring the rehabilitation and reintegration of formerly recruited children; and allowing ethnic armed groups to cooperate with the United Nations with a view to end all recruitment and use of children;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, para. 18
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- Expressing deep concern at the Israeli policy of closures and the imposition of severe restrictions and checkpoints, several of which have been transformed into structures akin to permanent border crossings, other physical obstacles and a permit regime, which are applied in a discriminatory manner affecting the Palestinian population only and all of which obstruct the freedom of movement of persons and goods, including medical and humanitarian goods, throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and impair the Territory’s contiguity, violating the human rights of the Palestinian people,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan, para. 25
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- Gravely concerned at all acts of violence, destruction, harassment, provocation and incitement by extremist Israeli settlers and groups of armed settlers in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, against Palestinian civilians, including children, and their properties, including homes, agricultural lands and historic and religious sites, and the acts of terror carried out by several extremist Israeli settlers, which are a long-standing phenomenon aimed at, inter alia, displacing the occupied population and facilitating the expansion of settlements,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan, para. 26
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- Expressing concern at ongoing impunity for acts of settler violence against Palestinian civilians and their properties, and stressing the need for Israel to investigate and to ensure accountability for all of these acts,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
Paragraph
Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in Libya, para. 38
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- 22. Expresses serious concern at the continued plight of internally displaced persons, and in that regard welcomes the agreement brokered by the Presidency Council and calls for the voluntary, safe and dignified return of all persons displaced by the conflict since 2011, in accordance with applicable law;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Cultural rights and the protection of cultural heritage, para. 30
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- 8. Further calls for the recognition of the protection of cultural heritage as an important component of humanitarian assistance, including in armed conflict and with regard also to displaced populations and for enhanced cooperation between the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the mandate of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and other relevant agencies and stakeholders, with a view to mainstreaming the protection of cultural heritage into humanitarian actions, security strategies and peacebuilding processes, and in post-conflict reconciliation initiatives;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Cultural rights and the protection of cultural heritage, para. 15
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- Acknowledging the importance of early restoration of the full enjoyment of cultural rights to individuals affected by conflict, and in particular to those who are displaced,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 12
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- Mindful of the commitment of States to work towards ending the detention of children for the purpose of determining their migration status in a manner that takes into account as a primary consideration the best interests of the child, in accordance with the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 14
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- Recognizing that children are disproportionately affected in complex humanitarian emergencies, which increases their vulnerability as refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, stateless persons, migrants and those remaining in areas of armed conflict, in particular when they are unaccompanied and separated,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 35
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- 15. Reminds States of their obligation to register all births without discrimination of any kind, and also reminds States that birth registration should take place immediately after birth, in the country where children are born, including the children of migrants, non-nationals, asylum seekers, refugees, displaced and stateless persons, in accordance with their national law and their obligations under the relevant international instruments, that late birth registration should be limited to those cases that would otherwise result in a lack of registration and that the child has the rights from birth to a name, to acquire a nationality and, as far as possible, to know and be cared for by his or her parents;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2018
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Situation of human rights in the South Sudan, para. 16
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- Condemning in the strongest terms all attacks against humanitarian personnel and facilities, which have resulted in the death of at least 95 humanitarian personnel since December 2013, expressing grave concern for the civilians who sought safety in protection-of-civilians sites who have been attacked, killed, traumatized or displaced, and the serious damage caused to the sites, including to medical clinics and schools, which were burned down and destroyed, and at sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls exiting protection-of-civilians sites throughout the country,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2018
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