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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000), para. 04

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  • Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000)
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Bearing in mind that unaccompanied refugee minors are among the most vulnerable refugees and the most at risk of neglect, violence, forced military recruitment, sexual assault and other abuses and therefore require special assistance and care,
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019), para. 155

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  • Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019)
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(c) Enable migrants to communicate with their families without delay to inform them that they are alive by facilitating access to means of communication along routes and at their destination, including in places of detention, as well as access to consular missions, local authorities and organizations that can provide assistance with family contacts, especially in cases of unaccompanied or separated migrant children, as well as adolescents;
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  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2016), para. 35

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  • Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2016)
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Underlining that, although the crime of smuggling of migrants may share, in some cases, some common features with the crime of trafficking in persons, Member States need to recognize that they are distinct crimes and that they require separate and complementary legal, operational and policy responses, and recalling further its resolutions 68/179 of 18 December 2013 and 69/167 and 69/187 of 18 December 2014, in which it called upon all Member States to protect and assist migrants, including migrant children and adolescents, and Economic and Social Council resolutions 2014/23 of 16 July 2014 and 2015/23 of 21 July 2015,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 32

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  • Migrant children and adolescents (2015)
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18. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to report on the situation of accompanied and unaccompanied migrant children, including adolescents, and to include information on the implementation of the present resolution in his report on the protection of migrants requested for its seventieth session;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2002), para. 05

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  • Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2002)
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Mindful of the fact that the ultimate solution to the plight of unaccompanied minors is their return to and reunification with their families,
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  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1997), para. 12

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  • Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1997)
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2. Expresses its deep concern at the continued plight of unaccompanied refugee minors, and emphasizes once again the urgent need for their early identification and for timely, detailed and accurate information on their number and whereabouts;
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2002), para. 19

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  • Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2002)
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9. Condemns all acts of exploitation of unaccompanied refugee minors, including their use as soldiers or human shields in armed conflict and their forced recruitment into military forces, and any other acts that endanger their safety and personal security;
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 12

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  • Migrant children and adolescents (2015)
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Reaffirming also the fact that all migrant children, including adolescents, are entitled to equal protection by the law and that all persons, regardless of their migration status, are equal before the courts and tribunals and, in the determination of their rights and obligations in a suit at law, are entitled to a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal established by law,
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Eritrea (2013), para. 10

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  • Situation of human rights in Eritrea (2013)
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Expressing grave concern further at the reported use of forced labour, including of conscripts and minors in the mining industry,
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  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1995), para. 13

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  • Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1995)
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5. Calls upon the Secretary-General, the High Commissioner, the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat, the United Nations Children’s Fund and other United Nations organizations to mobilize, within existing resources, adequate assistance to unaccompanied minors in the areas of relief, education, health and psychological rehabilitation;
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  • Health
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 09

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  • Migrant children and adolescents (2015)
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Recognizing that undocumented and unaccompanied migrant children, including adolescents, should be promptly placed in the least restrictive setting, for the shortest possible period of time, that is in the best interest of the child and respects their human rights,
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2018), para. 36

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  • Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2018)
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7. Also expresses its grave concern that, in some countries, the socioeconomic conditions of family members, particularly women and children, are adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures, imposed and maintained contrary to international law and the Charter, that create obstacles to trade relations among States, restrict movement through various means of transport, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
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  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000), para. 13

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  • Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000)
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3. Expresses its deep concern at the continued plight of unaccompanied refugee minors, and emphasizes once again the urgent need for their early identification and for timely, detailed and accurate information on their number and whereabouts;
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 19

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  • Migrant children and adolescents (2015)
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5. Reaffirms the need to effectively promote and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrant children, including adolescents, regardless of their migration status, and to address international migration through international, regional or bilateral cooperation and dialogue and through a comprehensive and balanced approach, recognizing the roles and responsibilities of countries of origin, transit and destination in promoting and protecting the human rights of migrant children, including adolescents, and avoiding approaches that might aggravate their vulnerability;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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The negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights (2019), para. 40

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  • The negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights (2019)
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7. Also expresses its grave concern that, in some countries, the socioeconomic conditions of family members, particularly women and children, are adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures, imposed and maintained contrary to international law and the Charter, that create obstacles to trade relations among States, restrict movement through various means of transport, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1997), para. 05

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  • Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1997)
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Mindful of the fact that the ultimate solution to the plight of unaccompanied minors is their return to and reunification with their families,
Topic(s)
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of migrants (2004), para. 35

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  • Protection of migrants (2004)
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21. Encourages States of origin to promote and protect the human rights of those families of migrant workers which remain in the countries of origin, paying particular attention to children and adolescents whose parents have emigrated, and encourages international organizations to consider supporting States in this regard;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000), para. 19

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  • Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000)
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9. Condemns all acts of exploitation of unaccompanied refugee minors, including their use as soldiers or human shields in armed conflict and their forced recruitment into military forces, and any other acts that endanger their safety and personal security;
Topic(s)
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1998), para. 04

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  • Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1998)
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Bearing in mind that unaccompanied refugee minors are among the most vulnerable refugees and the most at risk of neglect, violence, forced military recruitment, sexual assault and other abuses and therefore require special assistance and care,
Topic(s)
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2017), para. 075

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  • Rights of the child (2017)
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41. Also reaffirms its previous resolutions on migrant children and adolescents, on the protection of migrants and on violence against woman migrant workers, the resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the protection of the human rights of all migrants and the work of the various special mechanisms of the Council that have reported on the situation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants, particularly migrant children;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2004), para. 04

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  • Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2004)
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Bearing in mind that unaccompanied refugee minors are among the most vulnerable refugees and the most at risk of neglect, violence, forced military recruitment, sexual assault, abuse and vulnerability to infectious disease, such as human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, malaria and tuberculosis, and therefore require special assistance and care,
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1998), para. 05

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  • Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1998)
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Mindful of the fact that the ultimate solution to the plight of unaccompanied minors is their return to and reunification with their families,
Topic(s)
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2017), para. 128

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  • Rights of the child (2017)
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(d) Expresses serious concern about the situation of vulnerability and risk faced by migrants in transit and destination countries, in particular migrant children, including adolescents, who are unaccompanied or separated from their families, who are forced to flee or decide to leave their homelands owing to multip le causes, and calls upon States of origin, transit and destination to work together to find effective and sustainable solutions, including within a framework of solidarity and regional and international cooperation;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000), para. 09

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  • Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000)
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Noting the efforts of the High Commissioner to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, including children and unaccompanied minors, and that further enhanced efforts need to be exerted to this effect,
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 21

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  • Migrant children and adolescents (2015)
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7. Urges all States to intensify cooperation with relevant stakeholders in different areas in order to jointly identify positive alternatives to reduce, mitigate and eliminate the causes and structural factors that lead to irregular migration, so as to prevent minors from feeling compelled to migrate from their communities;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2004), para. 10

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  • Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2004)
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Noting the efforts of the High Commissioner to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, including children and unaccompanied minors, and that further enhanced efforts need to be exerted to this effect,
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2005), para. 12

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  • Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2005)
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8. Reiterates the importance of the full and effective implementation of standards and procedures to better address the specific protection needs of refugee children and adolescents and to safeguard rights and, in particular, to ensure adequate attention to unaccompanied and separated children and former child soldiers in refugee settings, as well as in the context of voluntary repatriation and reintegration measures;
Topic(s)
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2005), para. 08

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  • Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2005)
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Expressing its grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women and children, including adolescents,
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2017), para. 078

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  • Rights of the child (2017)
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44. Also reaffirms that States, in accordance with their obligations under international law, are responsible for promoting and protecting the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their migration status, including accompanied and unaccompanied children, including adolescents, within their territorial jurisdiction, and encourages States to promote natio nal child and adolescent protection systems, in consultation with all sectors of society, including migrant communities, civil society organizations and other relevant actors;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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The rights of the child (1999), para. 88

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  • The rights of the child (1999)
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2. Calls upon States and United Nations bodies, in recognizing the particular vulnerability of refugee and internally displaced children, to protect both their safety and their developmental needs, including health, education and psycho-social rehabilitation, and expresses its concern about adolescents in refugee camps, in particular girls, who are at risk of gender-based violence and sexual exploitation and abuse;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
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