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Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesLaws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that the Child Welfare Act applies to all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children regardless of their age with a …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure that detention of asylum seekers is only used as a measure of last resort, for the shortest possible period of …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesLaws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that the care of unaccompanied minors between the ages of 15 and 18 is transferred from the Directorate of Immigration …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesLaws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure the effective implementation of the 2017 decision of the Norwegian parliament to give some unaccompanied minors who have received time-limited …

Recommended measures (7)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should consider establishing a system to automatically reassess temporary residency permits of unaccompanied children and issuing residence permits of a longer duration.
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should address additional root causes of the disappearance of children from reception centres.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should increase its efforts to search for missing children, provide them with the necessary protection, redress and rehabilitation and ensure that, if …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should under no circumstances deport children and their families back to countries where there is a risk of irreparable harm to the …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should place children and their families in reception centres only for the shortest time possible, and increase the human, technical and financial …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure that under no circumstances are children placed in detention on the basis of their immigration status.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that unaccompanied children in all municipalities, including those above 15 years of age, receive good-quality care.

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure that unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged between 15 and 18 are provided with the same quality of care that is given …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesLaws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should eliminate differential treatment of unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged between 15 and 18 and provide them with the same level of care …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  In line with its general recommendations No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women and No. 30 …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The Committee recommends that the State party take effective measures to ensure that all persons in the State party have access to primary healthcare services, …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: ResourcesTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to ensure that all Sami children, whether living in the Sami districts or outside, fully …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Teaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should enforce the right of all Sami children of school age to Sami-language education and ensure that the new Education Act significantly …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should undertake research on violence against and sexual abuse of children among the Sami population, develop specific intervention measures and ensure that …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansAwareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Local Government and ModernisationMinistry of Culture
  The State party should increase its efforts to combat discrimination, hate speech and violence against Sami children, Roma children and children from other minority groups, …

Recommended measures (5)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should strengthen effective policies and procedures to identify and support child victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation, as well as children who …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should undertake specific efforts to eliminate discrepancies in the application of the definition of trafficking by municipalities, which is particularly necessary with …
• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should allocate additional resources to identify perpetrators of such crimes and bring them to justice.
• Type of action: ResourcesPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should improve coordination in providing assistance to child victims of trafficking.
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should conduct research to better assess the scope of trafficking in the State party.