ii. Children

  Main Debates How Should Asylum Systems Adapt to Respect the ’Best Interests of the Children’ Child Soldiers: Should They Be Excluded or Protected?   Main Points Large Number of Unaccompanied Children Seeking Asylum State Guidelines Need to Take Account of Youth, Immaturity, and Special Needs   Treaties Convention on the Rights of the Child, 20 Nov. 1989, 1577 U.N.T.S. 3 .   UNHCR Documents UNHCR, 'Refugee Children: Guidelines on Protection and Care, 1994. UNHCR, 'Guidelines on Policies and Procedures in Dealing with Unaccompanied Children Seeking Asylum', 1997. UNHCR EXCOM, 'Refugee Children', Conclusion No. 47 (XXXVIII), 1987. UNHCR EXCOM, 'Refugee Children', Conclusion No. 59 (XL), 1989. UNHCR EXCOM, ’Refugee Children and Adolescents’, Conclusion No. 84 (LXVIII), 1997.   Readings Core Save the Children and UNHCR, 'Separated Children in Europe Programme "Statement of Good Practice"', October 2004. Save the Children and UNHCR, 'Separated Children in Europe Programme "Returns of Separated Children"', September 2004.   Readings Extended S. Maloney, Transatlantic Workshop on 'Unaccompanied/Separated Children: Comparative Policies and Practices in North America and Europe' (2002) 15 Journal of Refugee Studies 102. Immigration and Refugee Board (Canada), ’Child Refugee Claimants: Procedural and Evidentiary Issues’, 30 Sept. 1996.