GENERAL COMMENT NO. 6 (2005)
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD. Thirty-ninth session 17 May 3 June 2005. GENERAL COMMENT NO. 6 (2005). FINAL UNEDITED VERSION. Treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin Contents of the GENERAL COMMENT No. 6. I. OBJECTIVES OF THE GENERAL 4. II. STRUCTURE AND SCOPE OF GENERAL COMMENT ................................. 5. III. DEFINITIONS ........................................ ........................................ .................. 5. IV. APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES ........................................ ................................... 6. a) Legal obligations of State parties for all unaccompanied or separated children in their territory and measures for their implementation ........................................ ... 6. b) Non-discrimination (art. 2)...................................... ........................................ .. 7. c) Best interests of the child as a primary consideration in the search for short and long-term solutions (art.
children who are recognized as refugees from applying for family reunification; others permit reunification but impose conditions so restrictive as to make it virtually impossible to achieve. Many such children are granted only temporary status which ends when they turn 18, and there are few effective return programmes.
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