Human Rights of MIgrant Children
- Document number
- 2147
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- Human Rights of MIgrant Children
- Author/publisher
- International Organization for MIgration (IOM)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems,
- Summary
- This research summarises how international law protects migrant children. It focuses on the protection given to children by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is also applicable to nonnationals. The report concentrates on and examines in detail the rights that are most relevant to child migrants. Further the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and other relevant human rights instruments, are considered. Finally, a brief section is dedicated to the protection afforded to child refugees and victims of trafficking under international law.
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