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CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF
THE CHILD
Adopted by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of
20 November 1989, entered into force on 2
September 1990.
Article 20

1. A child temporarily or permanently deprived of
his or her family environment, or in whose own
best interests cannot be allowed to remain inthat environment, shall be entitled to special
protection and assistance provided by the State.
2. States Parties shall in accordance with theirnational laws ensure alternative care for such achild.
3. Such care could include, inter alia, foster
placement, kafalah of Islamic law, adoption or if
necessary placement in suitable institutions forthe care of children. When consideringsolutions, due regard shall be paid to thedesirability of continuity in a child's upbringing
and to the child's ethnic, religious, cultural andlinguistic background.
Article 22

1. States Parties shall take appropriate measures
to ensure that a child who is seeking refugee
status or who is considered a refugee withapplicable international or domestic law andprocedures shall, whether unaccompanied oraccompanied by his or her parents or by anyother person, receive appropriate protection
and humanitarian assistance in the enjoymentof applicable rights set forth in the present
Convention and in other international humanrights or humanitarian instruments to which thesaid States are Parties.
2. For this purpose, States Parties shall provide, as
they consider appropriate, co-operation in any
efforts by the United Nations and othercompetent organizations or non-governmentalorganizations co-operating with the United
Nations to protect and assist such a child and totrace the parents or other members of thefamily of any refugee child in order to obtain
information necessary for reunification with hisor her family. In cases where no parents or othermembers of the family can be found, the childshall be accorded the same protection as anyother child permanently or temporarily deprivedof his or her family environment for any reason,
as set forth in the present Convention.

REFUGEE
According to the Convention Relating to theStatus of Refugees, a refugee is any person
who, owing to well-founded fear of being
persecuted for reasons of race, religion,
nationality, membership of a particular socialgroup or political opinion, is outside thecountry of his or her nationality and is unableor, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail
himself or herself of the protection of thatcountry or return to it and has been granted
the right to international protection (asylum).

APPLICANT FOR
INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION(ASYLUM)
According to the 1951 Geneva Convention, anapplicant for international protection is any
person who applies for international
protection (asylum) in a country, which is not
the country of his or her nationality, owing topersecution or fear of persecution and whoawaits a decision concerning the application
waiting for a final decision, such a person may
not be compelled to return to the country of
his or her nationality.

INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION(ASYLUM)
Asylum is protection or sanctuary which a
country grants to a foreigner where it deems
that return to the country of his or her origin
might pose a threat to their safety or physicalintegrity for reasons of race, religion,
nationality, membership of a particular socialgroup or political opinion. This protection
entails, in particular, the right to reside in aforeign country, the rights granted torefugees under the 1951 Geneva Convention
and the rights enshrined in the International
Protection Act.

The material was published by the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia in 2016.