situations of armed conflict, so that they can be looked after and brought into a

comprehensive protective structure that will guarantee all their rights and facilitate their

reunification with their families;

30. Invites parliaments and governments to raise awareness of children’s rights in receiving

communities and to work actively for the most efficient coordination between agencies

responsible for receiving unaccompanied children, in recognition of the high incidence of

post-traumatic stress among unaccompanied children and in order to take every measure to

help them;

31. Calls on parliaments and governments to open borders based firmly on values such as the

rule of law, democracy, respect for human rights and international conventions, especially

when so many victims are children, and to find a way to combine respect for border

protection and the right to seek asylum;

32. Also calls on parliaments to ensure proper and qualified evaluation of whether

unaccompanied minors should return to their country of origin, and to find ways to ensure

the humane and safe return of those who must return after receiving a final rejection of

their asylum application, so that no minor returns home without a safe and appropriate

reception, acknowledging that an important step in the process is to make sure that minors

are reunited with their parents, bearing the child’s perspective in mind in every case and

ensuring the rights of each individual child;

33. Invites parliaments and other institutions to share with the IPU their best practices in the

protection of children’s rights, in particular the rights of separated or unaccompanied

migrant children and children in situations of armed conflict, with a view to developing a

relevant model law;

34. Further invites parliaments to work closely with the IPU, in particular its geopolitical groups,

to promote the organization of regional forums to address specific situations requiring

customized solutions, thus promoting the establishment of comprehensive protection

systems;

35. Calls on governments and parliaments to assume their responsibility for protecting the rights

of children, in particular separated or unaccompanied migrant children, children in

situations of armed conflict or occupation and children affected by organized crime, and to

fulfill their obligations to protect child refugees and asylum-seekers;

36. Urges parliaments and governments to incorporate the perspective of minors and to place

greater emphasis on children in legislation, budgets and policymaking, with a view to

ensuring that the voices of young people and children are better heard;

37. Calls on parliaments and governments to enact all provisions of the Convention on the

Rights of the Child in national legislation in order to guarantee equal rights for all children.

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