12. Calls on the parliaments of countries involved in armed conflict to urge their governments,

in close collaboration with the United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the

Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, to release child combatants or prisoners

of war and seek lasting solutions, such as family unification, where possible signing relevant

action plans to this end;

13. Invites parliaments to share best practices on the protection of children from the

perspective of restorative justice with the governments, parliaments and human rights

organizations of countries where armed conflict and situations involving organized crime are

developing;

14. Calls on parliaments to ensure compliance with international standards for the protection of

separated or unaccompanied migrant children, including the principles of non-discrimination

and non-punishment, prohibition of inappropriate detention of the child, the best interests

of the child, the right of the child to life and development, and the right of children to

participate in decisions that affect them;

15. Also calls on parliaments to ensure that adequate resources are allocated from national

budgets to enforce laws, implement policies and improve practices related to the protection

of children, especially separated or unaccompanied migrant children and children in

situations of armed conflict, and to guarantee that these budgets are gender-sensitive;

16. Invites parliaments to hold hearings and consultations so as to assess the effectiveness of

existing laws, policies, and practices on protecting children, especially separated or

unaccompanied migrant children and children in situations of armed conflict, collect age-

and sex-disaggregated data on the scope of the problem, and identify appropriate responses

to combat it;

17. Also invites parliaments, in partnership with UNICEF and in consultation with Interpol, to

promote the establishment of a comprehensive international and up-to-date register of

foreign separated or unaccompanied minors as an efficient tool for safeguarding the rights

of such children, and to entrust the responsibility for coordinating such data to a single

national authority;

18. Urges parliaments to hold governments to account for their humanitarian duty to provide

children, especially separated or unaccompanied migrant children and children in situations

of armed conflict, with the necessary services, in order to guarantee basic human rights such

as education, medical treatment, counselling, rehabilitation and reintegration, child care,

accommodation and legal assistance, bearing in mind the special needs of girls; also urges

them to support the establishment of national referral mechanisms to this end;

19. Calls on governments to ensure that minors under the age of 18 recruited illegally into

armed forces who are accused of crimes under international law are considered first and

foremost as victims, rather than perpetrators, of international law violations;

20. Invites parliaments to support awareness-raising efforts, especially by working with the

media to address xenophobia and violations of the rights of children, especially separated or

unaccompanied migrant children and children in situations of armed conflict, and notes that

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