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conducted at night. These children and their mothers are then placed in Yahalom detention
facility at Ben Gurion International Airport until their deportation, in small cells that are
unsuitable for families without the possibility to contact their father or any other family
members and without access to health services, social workers or legal counselling;
(c)
The conditions of detention of children in Saharonim detention centre which
were judged harsh and overcrowded by the Public Defender in his August 2011 report. In
2011, 19 boys attempted suicide in the Matan detention facility of Harera and in the Givon
detention facility, girls have been detained together with adults. Child victims of abuse,
torture or trafficking are not provided with appropriate psychosocial care and support;
(d)
The arrest, imprisonment in harsh conditions and deportation in 2012 of
Sudanese children, including children who had been placed in protective care services due
to violence and severe neglect by their parents, following arrest and imprisonment of the
parents in harsh conditions, causing serious emotional damage to these children.
70.
The Committee draws attention to its general comment No. 6 (2005) on the
treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin
and reminds the State party that all children involved in or directly affected by
international migration are entitled to the enjoyment of their rights, regardless of age,
sex, ethnic or national origin and economic or documentation status, in both voluntary
and involuntary migration situations, whether accompanied or unaccompanied, on
the move or otherwise settled, documented or undocumented or any other situation.
The Committee urges the State party to:
(a)
Guarantee the right for all asylum-seeking children and children of
migrant workers to access public schools, boarding schools, kindergartens, nurseries
and health services and ensure coordination among responsible government actors
with the view to protecting and adequately supporting these children;
(b)
Develop and enact as a matter of priority a national legal framework to
regulate the Israeli asylum procedure, including the principle of non-refoulement, and
repeal the provisions of the Anti-Infiltration Law which allow for the prolonged
detention of children;
(c)
Take all appropriate measures to promote physical and psychological
recovery, as well as social reintegration of child victims of any form of neglect,
exploitation, abuse, torture or any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment;
(d)
Cease with immediate effect the detention of children on the basis of
their immigration status;
(e)
Conduct individual assessments and evaluations of the best interests of
the child at all decision stages of the migration process affecting children, and with the
involvement of child protection professionals, the judiciary as well as children
themselves. Primary consideration should also be given to the best interests of the
child in any proceeding resulting in the child’s or their parents’ detention, return or
deportation;
(f)
Consider ratifying the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of
Statelessness, and review nationality legislation and existing procedures to bring them
in line with international standards for the prevention and reduction of statelessness.
Follow up to the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict
71.
The Committee expresses deep concern about the continuous use of Palestinian
children as human shields and informants (14 such cases having being reported from
January 2010 to 31 March 2013 only) and about the failure of the State party to comply
with the ruling of the High Court of Justice in Adalah et al. v. Commander of the Central
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