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Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (e) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes that individual, careful and prompt registration of children can be useful for States, UNHCR and other relevant agencies and partners in identifying children at heightened risk; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2007 | ||
Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (b) ix | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recognizes that strategies and actions under this operational guidance should be underpinned by the following principles and approaches, amongst others:] Emphasis should be given to children in the prioritization of financial and other necessary resources; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2007 | ||
Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (b) i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recognizes that strategies and actions under this operational guidance should be underpinned by the following principles and approaches, amongst others:] Children should be among the first to receive protection and assistance; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2007 | ||
Refugee Children and Adolescents 1997, para. (e) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon all States to participate constructively in the negotiations on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts with the aim of an early agreement on the text. | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1997 | ||
Refugee Children 1989, para. (k) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalled its request in its Thirty-seventh Session in 1986 [No. 41 (XXXVII)] for the High Commissioner to report regularly to the Executive Committee on the needs of refugee children, and on existing and proposed programmes for their benefit. | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1989 | ||
Refugee Children 1987, para. (v) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Called upon the High Commissioner to maintain the UNHCR Working Group on Refugee Children at Risk as his focal point on refugee children, to strengthen the Working Group and to inform the members of the Executive Committee, on a regular basis, of its work. | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1987 | ||
Refugee Children 1987, para. (u) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Called upon the High Commissioner to develop further, in consultation with concerned organizations, guidelines to promote cooperation between UNHCR and these organizations to improve the international protection, physical security, well-being and normal psychosocial development of refugee children; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1987 | ||
Refugee Children 1987, para. (t) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noted the importance of further study of the needs of refugee children by UNHCR, other intergovernmental and non-governmental agencies and national authorities, with a view to identification of additional support programmes and reorientation as necessary of existing ones; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1987 | ||
Refugee Children 1987, para. (s) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirmed the need to promote continuing and expanded co-operation between UNHCR and other concerned agencies and bodies active in the fields of assistance to refugee children and protection, including through the development of legal and social standards; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1987 | ||
Refugee Children 1987, para. (b) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognized that refugee children constitute approximately one half of the world's refugee population and that the situation in which they live often gives rise to special protection and assistance problems as well as to problems in the area of durable solutions; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1987 | ||
Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (g) vi | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommends that States, UNHCR and other relevant agencies and partners work in close collaboration to prevent children from being put at heightened risk, and respond, as necessary, through the general prevention, response and solution measures listed non-exhaustively below:] Strengthen or promote the establishment of child protection committees, as appropriate, with equal and meaningful participation of girls and boys; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2007 | ||
Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (g) v | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommends that States, UNHCR and other relevant agencies and partners work in close collaboration to prevent children from being put at heightened risk, and respond, as necessary, through the general prevention, response and solution measures listed non-exhaustively below:] Promote the implementation of mechanisms for monitoring the protection of children at risk, particularly of those in alternative care arrangements; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2007 | ||
Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (b) xii | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recognizes that strategies and actions under this operational guidance should be underpinned by the following principles and approaches, amongst others:] A two-pronged approach comprising: (1) mainstreaming of age, gender and diversity into all UNHCR programmes, policies and operations, and (2) targeted action, to ensure that all children, girls and boys of diverse backgrounds, can enjoy protection on an equal basis; and | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2007 | ||
Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (b) vi | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recognizes that strategies and actions under this operational guidance should be underpinned by the following principles and approaches, amongst others:] Due consideration should be given to the importance of the family and family support structures for the protection of children; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2007 | ||
Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (b) v | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recognizes that strategies and actions under this operational guidance should be underpinned by the following principles and approaches, amongst others:] The principle of the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration in regard to all actions concerning children; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2007 | ||
Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (b) ii | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recognizes that strategies and actions under this operational guidance should be underpinned by the following principles and approaches, amongst others:] States should promote the establishment and implementation of child protection systems, in accordance with international obligations of States concerned, and to which children under their jurisdiction should have non-discriminatory access; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2007 | ||
Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (a) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Adopts this Conclusion which provides operational guidance for States, UNHCR and other relevant agencies and partners, including through identifying components that may form part of a comprehensive child protection system, with the aim of strengthening the protection of children at risk; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2007 | ||
Conclusion On Identification, Prevention And Reduction Of Statelessness And Protection Of Stateless Persons 2006, para. (h) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls on States to facilitate birth registration and issuance of birth or other appropriate certificates as a means to providing an identity to children and where necessary and when relevant, to do so with the assistance of UNHCR, UNICEF, and UNFPA; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2006 | ||
Civilian and Humanitarian Character of Asylum 2002, para. (c) viii | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommends that action taken by States to ensure respect for the civilian and humanitarian character of asylum be guided, inter alia, by the following principles;] Former child soldiers should benefit from special protection and assistance measures, in particular as regards their demobilization and rehabilitation; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2002 | ||
General Conclusion On International Protection 2001, para. (i) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses the importance of according special attention to the protection needs of vulnerable refugees, including women, children and the elderly, in the application of the international refugee instruments and related protection standards; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2001 | ||
Protection of the Refugee's Family 1999, para. (a) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirms Conclusion No. 9 (XXVIII), Conclusion No. 24 (XXXII), Conclusion No. 84 (XLVIII),and Conclusion No. 85 (XLIX) paragraphs (u) to (x) on family reunion and family unity and on refugee children and adolescents; and re-emphasizes that the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by the society and the State; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1999 | ||
Refugee Children and Adolescents 1997, para. (b) iv | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges States and concerned parties to take all possible measures to protect child and adolescent refugees, inter alia, by:] providing appropriate training to military personnel and peacekeepers on human rights and humanitarian protections to which children and adolescents are entitled, and holding all parties accountable for violations of such rights and protections in refugee situations; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1997 | ||
General Conclusion On International Protection 1993, para. (y) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the High Commissioner, given the diversity and persistent character of certain obstacles hampering the protection of refugee women and refugee children, in consultation with the Chairman of the Executive Committee, to convene an informal working group of the Committee to examine these obstacles, as well as review options and propose concrete measures to overcome them; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1993 | ||
General Conclusion On International Protection 1993, para. (w) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Notes with concern the especially vulnerable situation of refugee children and therefore welcomes the High Commissioner's Policy on Refugee Children (EC/SCP/82) and stresses the importance of the Convention on the Rights of the Child as a normative framework for action to protect and care for children of her concern; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1993 | ||
General Conclusion On International Protection 1992, para. (k) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages the High Commissioner to ensure that specific attention to refugee women's issues becomes an integral part of refugee protection and requests her also to ensure that the protection situation of both refugee women and of refugee children is included in the plan of work for forthcoming meetings of the Sub-Committee of the Whole on International Protection; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1992 | ||
General Conclusion On International Protection 1991, para. (g) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirms Conclusion No. 59 (XL) on refugee children adopted at the fortieth session of the Executive Committee and reiterates the importance of providing adequate protection and assistance to ensure the safety and development of refugee children and, in this connection, welcomes the High Commissioner's decision to establish a new post of Coordinator on Refugee Children; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1991 | ||
Refugee Children 1989, para. (f) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognized the link between education and durable solutions and encouraged UNHCR to strengthen its efforts in assisting host country governments to ensure the access of refugee children to education, inter alia through the involvement of new organizations and governmental and non-governmental donors, and where necessary through the incorporation of appropriate arrangements in its programmes of assistance; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1989 | ||
Refugee Children 1989, para. (c) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commended the High Commissioner and his Working Group on Refugee Children for the development and dissemination of the Guidelines on Refugee Children and for the implementation of a work plan concerning refugee children and called upon UNHCR to seek the active co-operation and collaboration of governments, other United Nations bodies; among them UNICEF, non-governmental organizations and refugees themselves, in the implementation of the guideline; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1989 | ||
General Conclusion On International Protection 1986, para. (m) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noted that the situation of refugee children also required special consideration and called upon the High Commissioner to report regularly to the Executive Committee on the needs of refugee children, and on existing and proposed programmes for their benefit; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1986 | ||
Refugees without an Asylum Country 1979, para. (e) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Considered that States should be guided by the following considerations:] In the interest of family reunification and for humanitarian reasons, States should facilitate the admission to their territory of at least the spouse and minor or dependent children of any person to whom temporary refuge or durable asylum has been granted; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1979 |