The CRC Committee found that the children’s detention in closed family detention centres violated the prohibition on ill-treatment (art. 37 CRC), read alone and in conjunction with the best-interests principle (art. 3 CRC).
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Communications No. 73/2019 K.K. and R.H on behalf A.M.K. and S.K. v. Belgium, 22 March 2022
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