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B.4 Duty to regulate, monitor and supervise
States Parties shall ensure that the institutions, services and facilities responsible for the care
or protection of children shall conform with the standards established by competent authorities,
particularly in the areas of safety, health, in the number and suitability of their staff, as well as
competent supervision.574
Convention on the Rights of the Child, art. 3(3). In addition, article 19(1) of this Convention establishes that:
“States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child
from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or
exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the
care of the child.”
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Cf. Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 21 on children in street situations, June 21,
20172017, UN Doc. CRC/C/GC/21, para. 45.
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Cf. Committee on the Rights of the Child, Report on the twenty-fifth session, Geneva, November 14, 2000, UN Doc.
CRC/C/100, para. 688.22. See also, Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 17 on the right of the
child to rest, leisure, play, recreational activities, cultural life and the arts (art. 31), April 17, 2013, UN Doc.
CRC/C/GC/17, para. 51.
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, attached to UN General Assembly Resolution 64/142 , February 24,
2010, UN Doc. A/RES/64/142, para. 105.
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Cf. Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, attached to UN General Assembly Resolution 64/142 , February
24, 2010, UN Doc. A/RES/64/142, para. 105.
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