Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors

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; expresses the hope once again that adequate resources will be provided for programmes of identification and tracing of unaccompanied refugee minors; calls upon the Office of UNHCR, in cooperation with other relevant UN bodies, to incorporate into its programmes policies that aim at preventing refugee family separation, conscious of the importance of family unity; calls upon all Governments and organizations concerned to exert the maximum effort to assist and protect refugee minors and to expedite the return to and reunification with their families of unaccompanied refugee minors; calls upon all States and other parties to armed conflict to respect international humanitarian law, and, in this regard, calls upon States parties to respect fully the provisions of the Geneva Convention of 12 Aug. 1949 and related instruments, while bearing in mind resolution 2 adopted at the 26th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and to respect the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which accord children affected by armed conflict special protection and treatment; condemns all acts of exploitation of unaccompanied refugee minors and any other acts that endanger their safety and personal security.

Adopted without vote, 85th meeting

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Adopted at the 85th plenary meeting, 9 Dec. 1998.