The children (and wives) of foreign ISIS fighters
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there is a tendency, predominantly upheld by the monitoring treaty bodies of the core human rights conventions, to recognize also States’ extraterritorial positive obligations, for example in relation to the absolute ban
on torture and other forms of ill-treatment and the prohibition to recruit
and use children in hostilities. Furthermore, the obligation to rehabilitate
and reintegrate children affected by all forms of violence, including
armed conflicts − which is enshrined in the CRC and in both FTFs Resolutions – requires States to implement effective measures in an environment which, unlike the Iraqi prisons and the SDF camps, ‘fosters the
health, self-respect and dignity of the child’.138
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Art 39 CRC.