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

Stresses the importance of providing adequate resources for programmes of identification, registration, documentation and tracing of unaccompanied minors and their reunification with their families; calls upon the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in cooperation with other relevant UN bodies, to incorporate into its programmes policies that aim at preventing the separation of refugee families; calls to expedite the return and reunification with their families; urges the Office of the High Commissioner, all UN organizations, as well as other international organizations and non-governmental organizations concerned to take appropriate steps to mobilize resources commensurate with the needs of unaccompanied refugee minors; calls upon all States and other parties to armed conflict to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law, human rights law and refugee law; 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.

Adopted without vote, 77th plenary meeting

3 p.

Issued in GAOR, 58th sess., Suppl. no. 49.