aa. Protect children and young persons through the following:
1. Measures designed to give children and young persons opportunities
and facilities for their healthy physical and psychological
development without distinction or discrimination on account of birth,
parentage, social origin or other conditions;
2. Special measures for the care and education of children separated
from their mothers or deprived of a family; children with disabilities;
and children who have been detained or otherwise restricted within
the criminal justice system;
3. Measures to protect children and young persons against economic,
social and all other forms of exploitation, neglect or cruelty and from
being subject to trafficking;
4. Measures governing work by children and young persons, within the
family, to ensure that such work is not dangerous to them, harmful to
their moral or physical well-being or likely to hamper their normal
physical, intellectual and psycho-social development.
Ensure that where a mother faces imprisonment all efforts shall be made to avoid
imprisoning her, through non-custodial punishments and such other mechanisms, or,
alternatively, that the child should not be imprisoned with its mother. Where women are
detained with their children, this should not violate the latter’s rights and only be done it
is in the best interests of the children. Women detained with their children should be
detained in institutions specially built for such purpose.
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