SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2015, para. 28
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- The problem of children detained by government authorities is also present in situations in which there is little threat from extremists. Children arrested or captured in the course of more conventional military operations are often held in poor conditions and detained without being brought before a judge or granted access to a lawyer. If children are prosecuted for acts allegedly committed during their involvement with an armed group, the courts do not apply basic standards of fair trial and juvenile justice standards. Military courts are particularly inappropriate forums for hearing cases involving children, given that they do not fully recognize the special status of juveniles in conflict with the law. Moreover, when deprived of their liberty, children are vulnerable to human rights violations, including sexual abuse, degrading and inhumane treatment and, in some instances, torture.
- Condicón jurídica
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organismo
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Tipo de documento
- SRSG report
- Medio de adopción
- N.A.
- Temas
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personas afectadas
- Children
- Año
- 2015
- Tipo de párrafo
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 28
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