Abstract
Statistics demonstrate that children constitute the greatest proportion of refugee populations. It was not until the entry into force of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), that fundamental and profound changes in the protection of children generally and refugee children especially were brought into the international legal framework. This chapter, focuses on the framework for the protection of refugee children under the CRC alone. It examines the relevance to refugee children of the CRC's underpinning principles especially in relation to the primary responses for assisting and protecting such children. The role of complementary rights of identity, protection and support are examined. The chapter concludes that the effective protection of refugee children will be possible only if states ensure the rights and protections guaranteed under the CRC for their own children and if they cooperate with international organisations in assisting refugee children by adopting genuine burden sharing options. Keywords:children's rights; protection of children; refugee children; Rights of the Child (CRC)
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