Assistance to Unaccompanied Refugee Minors

A/RES/56/136View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 114 Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions, published in 2002.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 1995–2004

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/58/150

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2004	A/RES/58/150	Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors	789	74%Compare
2002	A/RES/56/136	Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors	763	94%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/145	Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors	760	94%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/122	Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors	760	88%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/105	Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors	688	80%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2003–2005

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2005	A/60/300	Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/58/150
2003	A/58/299	Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/56/136

What subjects does this mandate have?

14 subjects

Child Refugees Child Soldiers Children in Armed Conflicts Educational Assistance Family Reunification Human Rights in Armed Conflicts Inter-Agency Cooperation Public Opinion Refugee Assistance Refugee Protection Rehabilitation Counselling Report Preparation Resources Mobilization Rights of the Child

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;⁵

⁵A/56/333 and Corr.1.

Also takes note of the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict;⁶

⁶See A/56/453.

Expresses its deep concern at the continuing 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;

Stresses the importance of providing adequate resources for programmes of identification and tracing of unaccompanied minors;

Calls upon the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in cooperation with other relevant United Nations bodies, to incorporate into its programmes policies that aim at preventing the separation of refugee families, conscious of the importance of family unity;

Calls upon all Governments, the Secretary-General, the Office of the High Commissioner, all United Nations organizations, other international organizations and non-governmental organizations concerned to exert the maximum effort to assist and protect refugee minors and to expedite the return and reunification with their families of unaccompanied refugee minors;

Urges the Office of the High Commissioner, all United Nations organizations, other international organizations and non-governmental organizations concerned to take appropriate steps to mobilize resources commensurate with the needs and interests of unaccompanied refugee minors and for their reunification with their families;

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 Conventions of 12 August 1949⁷ and related instruments, bearing in mind resolution 2 adopted at the twenty-sixth International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, held at Geneva in December 1995, and to respect the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,Error: Reference source not found which accord children affected by armed conflict special protection and treatment;

⁷United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.

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;

Calls upon the Secretary-General, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat, the United Nations Children’s Fund, other United Nations organizations and other international organizations to mobilize adequate assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors in the areas of relief, education, health and psychological rehabilitation;

Encourages the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict in his efforts to raise awareness worldwide and mobilize official and public opinion for the protection of children affected by armed conflict, including refugee minors;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session on the implementation of the present resolution and to give special attention in his report to the girl-child refugee.

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