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The following chapters summarize international human rights law, especially child
rights law, humanitarian law and other international standards applicable to these eight
issues. Summarizing these standards is intended to clarify for States how to ensure that
measures to address these issues are based on
child rights and that “the best interests of the
child as well as the specific needs and vulnerabilities of girls and boys are duly considered.”32
United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime, Handbook on Children
Recruited and Exploited by Terrorist
and Violent Extremist Groups: The
Role of the Justice System (2017)
The UNODC handbook aims at providing
guidance to legal professionals and policymakers, as well as practitioners on the
treatment of children targeted by terrorist
and violent extremist groups. The publication focuses on the prevention of child
recruitment, justice for children, and rehabilitation and reintegration. To complement and build upon the Handbook, in
2019, UNODC has developed three training manuals to support practitioners and
policymakers in designing and implementing effective interventions: (i) Prevention of
Child Recruitment by Terrorist and Violent
Extremist Groups; (ii) Justice for Children in
the Context of Counter-Terrorism; and (iii)
Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Child
Victims of Recruitment and Exploitation
by Terrorist and Violent Extremist Groups.
Guidance to States on Human RightsCompliant Responses to the Threat
Posed by Foreign Fighters (2018)
Published by the Working Group on Promoting and Protecting Human Rights and
the Rule of Law While Countering Terrorism, the document provides concrete guidance to States on how to implement Security Council resolutions 2178 and 2396 in
compliance with international law, including human rights, humanitarian and refugee
law. It covers a range of issues, including
the right to liberty and freedom of movement, deprivation of nationality, information exchange/data collection and analysis
and criminal justice measures. The document also has a section on children affected
by or involved in foreign fighter activities.
Protection of Human Rights and
Fundamental
Freedoms
While
Countering Terrorism: Report of the
United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights (A/HRC/40/28)
(2019)
The report analyses human rights issues
concerning children affected by terrorism,
including child victims and witnesses of
terrorist acts, children at perceived risk
of recruitment and children associated or
suspected of association with designated
terrorist groups. It highlights the duty
of protection and children’s right to,
inter alia, rehabilitation and privacy.
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