28th Conference of European Ministers of Justice

"Emerging issues of access to justice for vulnerable groups, in particular:
- migrants and asylum seekers;
- children, including children as perpetrators of crime"

25-26 October 2007, Lanzarote, Spain

 Reference texts

 United Nations

1. Migrants and asylum seekers
2. Children
3. General documentation

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I. Migrants and asylum seekers

UNHCR (website : http://www.unhcr.ch )

• Geneva Convention 1951
• 1967 Protocol to the Geneva Convention 1951
• General comment No. 15 on The position of aliens under the Covenant, Human Rights Committee
• Handbook on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons
• Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
• 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, United Nations
• Conclusion on Identification, Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and Protection of Stateless Persons, 6 October 2006. No. 106, UNHCR (see notably paras u-w)

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II. Children

UN (site web : http://www.un.org/ )

• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• General Comment No. 10 (2007) Children’s rights in juvenile justice
• UN Secretary-General’s Study on Violence Against Children
• Proposals for an Executive Committee Conclusion on Children at Risk, Excom
• Conference Room Paper on Children at Risk
• Resolution 60/231 on the Rights of the Child adopted on 11 January 2007, UN General Assembly
• Guidelines on Justice in Matters involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime, Economic and Social Council Resolution 2005/20 of 22 July 2005
• Guidelines for action on Children in the Criminal Justice System, Economic and Social Council Resolution 1997/30 of 21 July 1997

UNHCR (site web : http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/ )

• UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (the Beijing Rules)
• UN Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (the Riyadh Guidelines)
• UN Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty
• General Comment No. 10 (2007) on Children's rights in Juvenile Justice, Committee on the Rights of the Child
• General Comment No. 6 (2005) on the treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin, Committee on the Rights of the Child
• General Discussion on Administration of juvenile justice
• General Discussion on “Violence Against Children”, Committee of the Rights of the Child, Report on the twenty-fifth session

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III. General documentation

UNDP

• Paper on Access to Justice
• The rule of law at the national and international levels- Uniting our strengths: Enhancing United Nations support for the rule of law, Report of the UN Secretary-General

UNHCR

• Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power
• General Comment No. 31 on The Nature of the General Legal Obligation Imposed on States Parties to the Covenant, Human Rights Committee

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