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 in accordance with applicable international
or domestic law and procedures shall, whether unaccompanied or accompanied
by his or her parents or by any other person, receive appropriate protection
and humanitarian assistance in the enjoyment of applicable rights set forth
in the present Convention and in other international human rights or humanitarian
instruments to which the said States are Parties.
2. For this purpose, States
Parties shall provide, as they consider appropriate, cooperation in any
efforts by the United Nations and other competent intergovernmental organizations
or non-governmental organizations co-operating with the United Nations
to protect and assist such a child and to trace the parents or other members
of the family of any refugee child in order to obtain information necessary
for reunification with his or her family. In cases where no parents or
other members of the family can be found, the child shall be accorded the
same protection as any other child permanently or temporarily deprived
of his or her family environment for any reason, as set forth in the present
Convention.
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