CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
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Exploitation of Children;<br />
1997 (Executive Committee—48 th Session)<br />
(iv) providing appropriate training to military personnel and peacekeepers on human rights and<br />
humanitarian protections to which children and adolescents are entitled, and holding all parties<br />
accountable for violations of such rights and protections in refugee situations;<br />
(v) ensuring access to education, and the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and<br />
religion;<br />
(vi) providing medical or other special care, including rehabilitation assistance, to assist the social<br />
reintegration of refugee children and adolescents, especially those who are unaccompanied or<br />
orphaned;<br />
(c) Calls upon <strong>UNHCR</strong> to continue to integrate fully the rights of the child into its policies and<br />
programmes; improve its operational methods for assessing the needs of child and adolescent refugees; train its<br />
staff and implementing partners accordingly; formulate preventive strategies; and strengthen collaboration with<br />
States, UNICEF, WFP, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, ICRC, non-governmental<br />
organizations, and other concerned actors;<br />
(d) Calls upon <strong>UNHCR</strong> to include on the work programme of the Standing Committee in 1998 a report on<br />
the implementation of its strategy for follow-up to the Machel Study, with special reference to the establishment<br />
of operational performance objectives in respect of refugee children and adolescents and the identification of<br />
improvements in staffing, training and budgeting to meet these objectives; and also to report on follow-up of its<br />
evaluation of <strong>UNHCR</strong> programming and protection efforts on behalf of refugee children and adolescents.<br />
(e) Calls upon all States to participate constructively in the negotiations on an optional protocol to the<br />
Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts with the aim of an early<br />
agreement on the text.<br />
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